Lincolnton Middle

Located at 2361 Startown Road, in Lincolnton, North Carolina, Lincolnton Middle is a medium-sized junior high that works with 563 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Lincoln County Schools.

Lincoln County Schools comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 11,710 students; Lincolnton Middle is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lincolnton Middle logs that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 29% Hispanic, 14% Black, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Lincoln County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at Lincolnton Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Lincoln County's rate of about 66%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lincolnton 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 43.2%, a residual of -5.3 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Lincoln County indicate median household income runs about $80,016, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Lincoln County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,428 students), of which Lincolnton Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lincolnton High, around 2.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lincolnton Middle. On composite proficiency, Lincolnton Middle comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 52.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Lincolnton Middle's enrollment has ticked down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 627 (now 563). White enrollment moved from 53% to 44% across the same window.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.