Hobbton Middle

As a close-knit 6-8 campus in Newton Grove, North Carolina, Hobbton Middle enrolls 428 students from grades 6 through 8, part of Sampson County Schools. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 29% leaner than typical.

Within Sampson County Schools, which oversees 18 schools and 7,986 students, Hobbton Middle is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Hobbton Middle shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 58%. Beyond that, the school logs 25% White, 11% Black, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at Hobbton Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hobbton 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 49.0%, a residual of +0.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Sampson County) logs that median household income runs about $52,432, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Hobbton Middle is one of 23 public schools in Sampson County (combined enrollment of about 11,001 students).

Nearest neighbor: Hobbton High, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Hobbton Middle comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 58.2%.

Hobbton Middle operates from a low-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hobbton Middle has increased 5%, going from 407 students in 2018 to 428 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 52% to 58% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

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