Mineral Springs Middle

Mineral Springs Middle operates as a reasonably sized middle-grades school in Winston Salem, North Carolina, part of Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 702 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Across the 79 schools in Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools (51,745 students total), Mineral Springs Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mineral Springs Middle records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 39% Black, 4% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 15% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Mineral Springs Middle has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Forsyth County runs at roughly 88%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mineral Springs Middle is in the bottom 10% of North Carolina public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.4%; Mineral Springs Middle posts 20.0%, -28.4 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Forsyth County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $67,165 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Forsyth County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,902 students), Mineral Springs Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mineral Springs Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mineral Springs Middle at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 29.5%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mineral Springs Middle has climbed 106%, going from 341 students in 2018 to 702 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 45% to 51%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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