Konnoak Middle School

Konnoak Middle School operates as a modestly sized middle-grades school in Winston Salem, North Carolina, overseen by Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 363 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 40% smaller than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 605 students.

Across the 79 schools in Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools (51,745 students total), Konnoak Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Konnoak Middle School logs that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 28% Black, 7% White, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Konnoak Middle School has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at Konnoak Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Forsyth County (around 88%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Konnoak Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.6%; actual is 21.6%, a gap of -26.9 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Forsyth County shows median household earnings sit near $67,165, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Forsyth County runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,902 students), of which Konnoak Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Konnoak Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Konnoak Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.1%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 26%: 490 students in 2018 compared to 363 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 57% to 62%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Konnoak Middle School typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.