Third Creek Middle

Third Creek Middle is one of the low-enrollment 6-8 campuss in Statesville, North Carolina, operated by Iredell-Statesville Schools, with 402 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 605 students per school, that is 34% below typical.

Within Iredell-Statesville Schools, which oversees 38 schools and 21,017 students, Third Creek Middle is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Third Creek Middle logs that the most-represented group is Black (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 33% Hispanic, 19% White, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Iredell County as a whole is about 11% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 99% of students at Third Creek Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Iredell County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Third Creek Middle sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.5%; actual is 21.7%, a gap of -26.8 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Iredell County) reports that median household earnings sit near $81,419, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Third Creek Middle is one of 52 public schools in Iredell County (combined enrollment of about 31,906 students).

Nearest neighbor: Third Creek Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Third Creek Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Third Creek Middle at 4th of 4; the average score across the group is 56.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. Third Creek Middle's enrollment has rose 12% since 2018, when it stood at 360 (now 402). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 28% to 33%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

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