Public school / Middle
Central Middle
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
- NCES ID
- 290712002798
- District
- Cape Girardeau 63
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Central Middle is a public middle school in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, run by Cape Girardeau 63. It enrols 604 students — the 26454th 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
604
Teachers
49.0
Students per teacher
12.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
0.5%
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 Cape Girardeau 63
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.
- 1Central High1,341 students
- 2Central Jr. High618 students
- 3Central Middle604 students
- 4Jefferson Elem.483 students
- 5Clippard Elem.470 students
- 6Alma Schrader Elem.351 students
- 7Blanchard Elem.296 students
- 8Franklin Elem.217 students
- Enrollment+79.2%
- Teachers+104.2%
- Students per teacher−4.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−99.0%
Where this sits
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