P S Jones Middle

Located at 4105 N Market Street Ext, in Washington, North Carolina, P S Jones Middle is a mid-sized middle school that caters to 659 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within Beaufort County Schools.

Within Beaufort County Schools, which oversees 13 schools and 5,601 students, P S Jones Middle is one campus in the system.

Demographically, P S Jones Middle reports that the largest single group is Black at 40%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 29% White, 25% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, P S Jones Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 43.4%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Beaufort County shows the typical household earns roughly $58,357 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Beaufort County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,030 students), P S Jones Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is John Small Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around P S Jones Middle. On composite proficiency, P S Jones Middle comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 59.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. P S Jones Middle's enrollment has decreased 14% since 2018, when it stood at 765 (now 659). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 39% to 29%.

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