Manteo Middle School

Manteo Middle School is a middle school of cozy scale in Manteo, North Carolina, overseen by Dare County Schools, enrolling 383 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 37% below typical.

Dare County Schools comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 4,968 students; Manteo Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Manteo Middle School reports that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 30% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Dare County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Roughly 47% of students at Manteo Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Manteo Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.4%, the actual is 57.9%, a residual of -6.5 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Dare County shows the typical household earns roughly $88,994 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dare County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,968 students), of which Manteo Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Manteo High School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Manteo Middle School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 61.7%.

Manteo Middle School operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 17%: 460 students in 2018 compared to 383 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 71% to 57%.

Inside the community feed, members of the Manteo Middle School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.