Southeast Middle

Southeast Middle is a middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campus in Kernersville, North Carolina, overseen by Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools. The school enrolls 733 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 21% larger than the state mean of about 605.

Within Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools, which oversees 79 schools and 51,745 students, Southeast Middle is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Southeast Middle shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 32%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 30% Black, 29% White, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 15% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 100% of students at Southeast Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Forsyth County runs at roughly 88%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Southeast Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.4%; this one delivers 34.7%.

Around the school, Forsyth County reports that median household income runs about $67,165, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Southeast Middle is one of 88 public schools in Forsyth County (combined enrollment of about 55,902 students).

The closest other public school is Caleb's Creek Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Southeast Middle ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 51.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Southeast Middle has shrank 36%, going from 1,142 students in 2018 to 733 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 40% to 29%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Southeast Middle community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.