Public school / Middle
Discovery Middle School
Fargo, North Dakota
- NCES ID
- 380678000079
- District
- Fargo 1
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Discovery Middle School is a public middle school in Fargo, North Dakota, run by Fargo 1. It enrols 975 students — the 9137th largest of 532 public schools in North Dakota.
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
975
Teachers
81.0
Students per teacher
12.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
26.4%
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 Fargo 1
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.
- 1Fargo Davies High School1,363 students
- 2North High School1,083 students
- 3Discovery Middle School975 students
- 4South High School961 students
- 5Ben Franklin Middle School883 students
- 6Bennett Elementary School666 students
- 7Carl Ben Eielson Middle School615 students
- 8Centennial Elementary School562 students
- Enrollment+454.0%
- Teachers+478.6%
- Students per teacher+3.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−14.8%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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