Public school / Middle
Belton Middle School
Belton, Missouri
- NCES ID
- 290462003025
- District
- Belton 124
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Belton Middle School is a public middle school in Belton, Missouri, run by Belton 124. It enrols 639 students — the 23473rd largest of 2,483 public schools in Missouri.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
639
Teachers
47.0
Students per teacher
13.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
46.5%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Belton 124
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Belton High1,374 students
- 2Belton Middle School639 students
- 3Mill Creek Upper Elem.484 students
- 4Wilckens Steam Acad @Hillcrest474 students
- 5Cambridge Elem.423 students
- 6Gladden Elem.382 students
- 7Kentucky Trail Elem.325 students
- 8Grace Early Child. Ed. Ctr.241 students
- Enrollment+89.6%
- Teachers+95.8%
- Students per teacher+5.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−6.3%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory