TROY MIDDLE

As a big middle school in TROY, Missouri, TROY MIDDLE hosts 732 students from grades 6 through 8, run under TROY R-III. That puts it 59% larger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

Within TROY R-III, which oversees 11 schools and 6,510 students, TROY MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, TROY MIDDLE lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%); the rest breaks down as 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the resource side, TROY MIDDLE records 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, TROY MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.6%, the actual is 36.6%, a residual of -14.1 points.

In the area at large, Lincoln County reports that the typical household earns roughly $89,278 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Lincoln County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,367 students), of which TROY MIDDLE is one.

CLAUDE BROWN ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TROY MIDDLE at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 45.6%.

TROY MIDDLE operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TROY MIDDLE has remained close to its prior level, going from 729 students in 2018 to 732 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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