STRAFFORD MIDDLE

STRAFFORD MIDDLE operates as a mid-sized junior high in STRAFFORD, Missouri, overseen by STRAFFORD R-VI. Current enrollment sits at 411 students spanning grades 5 through 8.

Across the 4 schools in STRAFFORD R-VI (1,408 students total), STRAFFORD MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, STRAFFORD MIDDLE logs that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 5% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, STRAFFORD MIDDLE lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting STRAFFORD MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Greene County (around 47%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, STRAFFORD MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.5%; this one delivers 56.4%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Greene County indicate median household income runs about $61,479, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. STRAFFORD MIDDLE is one of 97 public schools in Greene County (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students).

Nearest neighbor: STRAFFORD HIGH, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around STRAFFORD MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, STRAFFORD MIDDLE comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.5%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 56%: 263 students in 2018 compared to 411 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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