Northwest Guilford Middle

Located at 5300 Northwest School Road, in Greensboro, North Carolina, Northwest Guilford Middle is a heavily attended 6-8 campus that instructs 915 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Guilford County Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 51% larger than the state mean of about 605.

Within Guilford County Schools, which oversees 123 schools and 68,535 students, Northwest Guilford Middle is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Northwest Guilford Middle records that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 10% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Northwest Guilford Middle shows 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Guilford County (around 89%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Northwest Guilford Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.4%, the actual is 79.5%, a residual of +7.0 points.

In the surrounding community, Guilford County reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,642 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Northwest Guilford Middle is one of 143 public schools in Guilford County (combined enrollment of about 79,539 students).

Nearest neighbor: Northwest Guilford High, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Northwest Guilford Middle comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 72.1%.

Northwest Guilford Middle operates from a suburban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Northwest Guilford Middle's enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 1,041 (now 915). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 77% to 69%.

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