SOUTHERN BOONE MIDDLE

SOUTHERN BOONE MIDDLE is a middle school of middle-of-the-pack scale in ASHLAND, Missouri, operated by SOUTHERN BOONE CO. R-I, instructing 648 students in grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 41% above the state mean of about 461.

Within SOUTHERN BOONE CO. R-I, which oversees 4 schools and 1,971 students, SOUTHERN BOONE MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, SOUTHERN BOONE MIDDLE lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%); the rest looks like 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, SOUTHERN BOONE MIDDLE reports 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Boone County's rate of about 38%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SOUTHERN BOONE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.9%, the actual is 63.4%, a residual of +12.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Boone County) shows that median household earnings sit near $72,758, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Boone County's 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,547 students), SOUTHERN BOONE MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Southern Boone High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around SOUTHERN BOONE MIDDLE. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOUTHERN BOONE MIDDLE ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 61.4%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. SOUTHERN BOONE MIDDLE's enrollment has increased 76% since 2018, when it stood at 369 (now 648). The White share of enrollment edged down from 94% to 87% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.