Allen Middle

Allen Middle operates as a mid-tier intermediate school in Greensboro, North Carolina, overseen by Guilford County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 617 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Allen Middle is one of 123 schools operated by Guilford County Schools, a district that enrolls 68,535 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Allen Middle reports that the largest single group is Black at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 34% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the resource side, On paper, Allen Middle has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Allen Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Allen Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Guilford County runs at roughly 89%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Allen Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 36.5%, a residual of -12.0 points.

In the broader community, census data for Guilford County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,642 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Allen Middle is one of 143 public schools in Guilford County (combined enrollment of about 79,539 students).

The closest other public school is Cyrus P Frazier Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Allen Middle comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 38.1%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 8%: 674 students in 2018 compared to 617 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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