J W Parker Middle

As a modestly sized junior high in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, J W Parker Middle hosts 336 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Edgecombe County Public Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 605 students each, so J W Parker Middle sits 44% below that benchmark.

Edgecombe County Public Schools comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 6,310 students; J W Parker Middle is among them.

On demographics, J W Parker Middle records that 89% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

In terms of school funding signals, J W Parker Middle reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.2:1. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Edgecombe County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $51,265 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. Across Edgecombe County's 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,573 students), J W Parker Middle is one campus in the mix.

J W Parker Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around J W Parker Middle.

J W Parker Middle operates from an inner-city location.

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