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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Middle

Cleveland Central Middle School

Cleveland, Mississippi

NCES ID
280075001475
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Cleveland Central Middle School is a public middle school in Cleveland, Mississippi, run by Cleveland School Dist. It enrols 433 students — the 46270th largest of 1,057 public schools in Mississippi.

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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

433students

46270th nationally, tied with 155

Teachers

31.0FTE

39703rd nationally, tied with 2,128

Students per teacher

14.0students

37664th nationally, tied with 1,054

Free or reduced-price lunch

100.0%percent

1st nationally, tied with 3,753

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.

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Within Cleveland School Dist

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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Cleveland Central High School817 students
  2. 2Cleveland Central Middle School433 students
  3. 3Bell Elementary School336 students
  4. 4D.M. Smith Elementary289 students
  5. 5Hayes Cooper Center for Math Sc Tec281 students
  6. 6Nailor Elementary School237 students
  7. 7Parks Elementary School213 students
  8. 8Pearman Elementary School212 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Mississippi median across 1,057 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−6.3%
  • Teachers+6.9%
  • Students per teacher+5.3%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+0.2%
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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.