Kings Mountain Middle

Kings Mountain Middle operates as a mid-sized intermediate school in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, operated by Cleveland County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 631 students spanning grades 7 through 8.

Cleveland County Schools runs 28 schools in total, collectively educating 14,504 students. Kings Mountain Middle is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Kings Mountain Middle reports that 55% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 26% Black, 9% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 72%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.0:1. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Kings Mountain 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 54.1%, a residual of +5.6 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Cleveland County shows median household income runs about $58,534, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cleveland County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,682 students), of which Kings Mountain Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Kings Mountain Intermediate, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Kings Mountain Middle. On composite proficiency, Kings Mountain Middle comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 58.1%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 632 students in 2018 compared to 631 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 69% to 55%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.

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