Gaudet Middle School

Gaudet Middle School operates as a modestly sized middle-grades school in Middletown, Rhode Island, overseen by Middletown. Current enrollment sits at 431 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Across the 5 schools in Middletown (1,819 students total), Gaudet Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Gaudet Middle School reports that 61% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 19% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Black, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Gaudet Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Newport County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $103,514 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Newport County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,784 students), of which Gaudet Middle School is one.

Gaudet Learning Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Gaudet Middle School.

Gaudet Middle School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Gaudet Middle School has contracted 38%, going from 694 students in 2018 to 431 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 71% to 61% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

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