Mooresville Middle

Set in Mooresville, North Carolina, Mooresville Middle is a moderately sized intermediate school, overseen by Mooresville Graded School District. It instructs 696 students across grades 6 through 8.

Mooresville Graded School District runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 5,917 students. Mooresville Middle is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Mooresville Middle lists that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 18% Black, 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Mooresville Middle logs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Iredell County's rate of about 61%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mooresville Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 66.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 66.2%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Iredell County shows median household income runs about $81,419, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Iredell County's 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,906 students), Mooresville Middle is one campus in the mix.

Mooresville Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mooresville Middle. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mooresville Middle ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 59.8%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 24%: 915 students in 2018 compared to 696 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 67% to 62%.

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