Sandy Grove Middle

Sandy Grove Middle is one of the middle-of-the-pack middle-grades schools in Lumber Bridge, North Carolina, run under Hoke County Schools, with 604 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Hoke County Schools runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 8,732 students. Sandy Grove Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Sandy Grove Middle reports that 30% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 24% White, 23% Hispanic, 11% Native American, 11% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Hoke County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Sandy Grove Middle lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.6:1. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sandy Grove 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 38.9%.

In the area at large, census data for Hoke County shows the typical household earns roughly $64,912 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Hoke County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,732 students), Sandy Grove Middle is one campus in the mix.

Sandy Grove Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sandy Grove Middle comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.9%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sandy Grove Middle has decreased 3%, going from 625 students in 2018 to 604 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 34% to 24% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 in 2025.

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