WESTPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL

WESTPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the moderately sized middle-grades schools in SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, operated by SPRINGFIELD R-XII, with 399 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

SPRINGFIELD R-XII runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 24,450 students. WESTPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, WESTPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 59% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 15% Hispanic, 13% Black, 9% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Greene County's rate of about 47%.

With demographic context factored in, WESTPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.8%, the actual is 37.1%, a residual of -12.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Greene County reports that the typical household earns roughly $61,479 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Greene County's 97 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students), WESTPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is WESTPORT ELEM., roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WESTPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.0%.

WESTPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WESTPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL has fell 5%, going from 420 students in 2018 to 399 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 73% to 59% over that span.

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