Clemmons Middle School

Clemmons Middle School is a large middle-grades school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, one of the schools within Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools. The school hosts 1,092 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 80% bigger than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 605 students.

Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools runs 79 schools in total, collectively educating 51,745 students. Clemmons Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Clemmons Middle School records that the most-represented group is White (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% Black, 26% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

Looking at school resources, Clemmons Middle School shows 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Forsyth County (around 88%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Clemmons Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.8%; this one delivers 57.2%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Forsyth County indicate the typical household earns roughly $67,165 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Forsyth County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,902 students), of which Clemmons Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ward Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clemmons Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Clemmons Middle School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 55.2%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Clemmons Middle School's enrollment has declined 3% since 2018, when it stood at 1,130 (now 1,092). The White share of enrollment declined from 42% to 33% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.