Granite Falls Middle

Granite Falls Middle operates as a medium-sized middle-grades school in Granite Falls, North Carolina, one of the schools within Caldwell County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 518 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Caldwell County Schools runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 10,667 students. Granite Falls Middle is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Granite Falls Middle lists that 78% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 13% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Caldwell County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Granite Falls Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 60.8%.

Across the wider county, Caldwell County reports that the typical household earns roughly $56,425 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Granite Falls Middle is one of 26 public schools in Caldwell County (combined enrollment of about 10,920 students).

Granite Falls Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 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 Granite Falls Middle at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 58.3%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Granite Falls Middle has edged down 10%, going from 575 students in 2018 to 518 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 88% to 78% over that span.

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