Morehead City Middle

Morehead City Middle is a compact intermediate school in Morehead City, North Carolina, operated by Carteret County Public Schools. The school enrolls 506 students in grades 6 through 8.

Morehead City Middle is one of 17 schools operated by Carteret County Public Schools, a district that serves 7,847 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Morehead City Middle reports that 71% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 16% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 5% Black, 2% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

On the resource side, The school lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Carteret County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Morehead City 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 64.9%, a residual of +16.4 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Carteret County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,322, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Morehead City Middle is one of 19 public schools in Carteret County (combined enrollment of about 8,053 students).

Morehead Elem at Camp Glenn is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Morehead City Middle. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Morehead City Middle ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 63.6%.

Morehead City Middle operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Morehead City Middle has changed only slightly, going from 503 students in 2018 to 506 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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