Public school / Middle
Charles H Darden Middle
Wilson, North Carolina
- NCES ID
- 370502002061
- District
- Wilson County Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Charles H Darden Middle is a public middle school in Wilson, North Carolina, run by Wilson County Schools. It enrols 441 students — the 45142nd largest of 2,773 public schools in North Carolina.
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
441
Teachers
26.0
Students per teacher
17.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
99.3%
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 Wilson County Schools
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.
- 1James Hunt High1,069 students
- 2Fike High1,046 students
- 3Beddingfield High682 students
- 4Forest Hills Middle670 students
- 5John W Jones Elementary591 students
- 6Vinson-Bynum Elementary473 students
- 7Rock Ridge Elementary469 students
- 8Springfield Middle445 students
- Enrollment−13.5%
- Teachers−23.5%
- Students per teacher+12.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+45.2%
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