Mount Holly Middle

Mount Holly Middle is one of the medium-sized middle schools in Mount Holly, North Carolina, part of Gaston County Schools, with 570 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Gaston County Schools comprises 56 schools with combined enrollment of 30,995 students; Mount Holly Middle is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mount Holly Middle reports that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 20% Black, 19% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Gaston County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Mount Holly 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 54.4%, a residual of +6.0 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Gaston County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $67,478 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Gaston County runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,898 students), of which Mount Holly Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ida Rankin Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mount Holly Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 52.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Mount Holly Middle's enrollment has ticked down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 686 (now 570). White enrollment moved from 68% to 49% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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