Southwest Guilford Middle

Located at 4368 Southwest School Road, in High Point, North Carolina, Southwest Guilford Middle is a heavily attended 6-8 campus that caters to 1,032 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Guilford County Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 605 students each, so Southwest Guilford Middle sits 71% bigger than that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Southwest Guilford Middle lists that the largest single group is Black at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 23% White, 15% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 34% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Guilford County's rate of about 89%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Southwest Guilford Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 48.7%, a residual of +0.3 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Guilford County put median household income runs about $68,642, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Guilford County's 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,539 students), Southwest Guilford Middle is one campus in the mix.

Southwest Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Southwest Guilford Middle at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 53.7%.

Southwest Guilford Middle operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Southwest Guilford Middle has shrank 14%, going from 1,194 students in 2018 to 1,032 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 39% to 23% over that span.

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