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Enrollment
808
Middle
DISTRICT 679 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WINSTON SALEM / FORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 370150002449
Thomas Jefferson Middle
3500 Sally Kirk Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27106 · (336) 703-4222 · Forsyth County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL808 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% of North Carolina public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public middle schools
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
805 students
DISTRICT 90% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 274 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 258 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 276 | 34% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
66.8%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
70.6%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NC schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
68.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.4%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 48% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in North Carolina's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Thomas Jefferson Middle
Thomas Jefferson Middle's state test result (68.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Jefferson Middle this school | 808 | 99.6% | 68.7% |
| Southeast Guilford Middle Greensboro | 826 | 99.6% | 50.1% |
| Norwayne Middle Fremont | 848 | 99.6% | 57.6% |
| Hope Middle Greenville | 952 | 99.7% | 76.5% |
| Cleveland Middle Garner | 936 | 99.7% | 61.2% |
| Riverwood Middle Clayton | 902 | 99.4% | 57.5% |
Matched among North Carolina middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Thomas Jefferson Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Forsyth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.7% | #63 of 463 | #2 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.6% | #53 of 461 | #1 of 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.8% | #59 of 463 | #2 of 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 808 | #96 of 478 | #5 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #305 of 456 | #14 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.8% | #140 of 456 | #7 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.6% | #27 of 472 | #3 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -36.3% | #5 of 300 | #1 of 9 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
808
-422 (-34%) vs 2020
-12% since 2000-01, when it was 919
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
was 19.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 808 | 47.3 | 17.1:1 | 100% (805) |
| 2023-24 | 767 | 47.3 | 16.2:1 | 100% (764) |
| 2022-23 | 800 | 45.6 | 17.5:1 | 45% (358) |
| 2020-21 | 1,230 | 63 | 19.5:1 | 27% (336) |
| 2017-18 | 1,268 | 74 | 17.1:1 | 34% (425) |
| 2015-16 | 1,261 | 74 | 17.0:1 | 32% (400) |
| 2010-11 | 1,177 | 73 | 16.1:1 | 27% (317) |
| 2000-01 | 919 | N/A | N/A | 11% (97) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Thomas Jefferson Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 36% (1,268 to 808); teachers down 36% (74 to 47.3).
About Thomas Jefferson Middle
Thomas Jefferson Middle operates as a mid-sized middle school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The school enrolls 808 students in grades 6 through 8. That compares with an average of about 605 students for middle schools in North Carolina.
Besides Thomas Jefferson Middle, Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools runs 78 other schools. The district enrolls 51,745 students.
The largest group at Thomas Jefferson Middle is White students, at 49%. The remaining students are 25% Black, 14% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 4% Asian. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Thomas Jefferson Middle scores 67%.
Thomas Jefferson Middle lists 47.3 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 17.1 students per teacher. The gap from the 15.9:1 average for middle schools in North Carolina is 1.2 students per teacher. About 100% of students at Thomas Jefferson Middle are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 88% average for public schools in Forsyth County is 12 points.
Among North Carolina public middle schools, Thomas Jefferson Middle outscored 93%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 48.4% for Thomas Jefferson Middle, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 68.7%. The 20.2-point gap ranks in the top 10% of North Carolina schools.
For the population of Forsyth County, the median household earns about $67,165 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Thomas Jefferson Middle shares Forsyth County with 87 other public schools.
Mount Tabor High School sits about 0.8 miles from Thomas Jefferson Middle. Within five miles of Thomas Jefferson Middle, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Thomas Jefferson Middle ranks 5th of 8 on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put Thomas Jefferson Middle inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased 34%. By 2024-25, the school had 17.1 students per teacher, compared with 19.5 in 2020-21.
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Forsyth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
389,977
Census ACS
Median income
$67,165
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
88
55,902 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools
- West Forsyth HighHigh · 2,145 students
- Ronald W Reagan High SchoolHigh · 2,122 students
- R J Reynolds HighHigh · 1,759 students
- East Forsyth HighHigh · 1,647 students
- Parkland HighHigh · 1,569 students
- Mount Tabor High SchoolHigh · 1,426 students
Other schools in Winston-Salem
- Atkins Academic & Tech HighHigh · 1,187 students
- Clemmons Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,092 students
- Oak Grove HighHigh · 992 students
- Meadowlark MiddleMiddle · 857 students
- Meadowlark ElementaryElementary · 827 students
- Quality Education AcademyCombined · 776 students
Other Thomas Jefferson Middle schools
17 other US public schools in 12 states are named Thomas Jefferson Middle. Thomas Jefferson Middle is the 6th largest of the 18.
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolFAIR LAWN, NJ · 1,100 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolEDISON, NJ · 954 students
- Thomas Jefferson MiddleMadera, CA · 948 students
- Thomas Jefferson MiddleLouisville, KY · 943 students
- THOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLEJEFFERSON CITY, MO · 927 students
Nearby schools
- Mount Tabor High School0.8 mi · 1,426
- Sherwood Forest Elementary0.9 mi · 670
- Jefferson Elementary1.7 mi · 560
- Speas Elementary1.7 mi · 793
- Whitaker Elementary2.0 mi · 490
- South Fork Elementary2.3 mi · 503
Frequently asked questions
About Thomas Jefferson MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Thomas Jefferson Middle?
Thomas Jefferson Middle enrolls approximately 808 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Thomas Jefferson Middle serve?
Thomas Jefferson Middle serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Thomas Jefferson Middle?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Thomas Jefferson Middle is approximately 17.1:1 (47 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Thomas Jefferson Middle?
At Thomas Jefferson Middle, the student body is approximately 49% White, 14% Hispanic, 25% Black, 4% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Thomas Jefferson Middle public or private?
Thomas Jefferson Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.