Public school / Middle
Gulfport Central Middle School
Gulfport, Mississippi
- NCES ID
- 280171000272
- District
- Gulfport School Dist
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Gulfport Central Middle School is a public middle school in Gulfport, Mississippi, run by Gulfport School Dist. It enrols 585 students — the 28125th largest of 1,057 public schools in Mississippi.
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
585
Teachers
46.0
Students per teacher
12.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
100.0%
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 Gulfport 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.
- 1Gulfport High School1,728 students
- 2Bayou View Middle School826 students
- 3Bayou View Elementary School682 students
- 4Gulfport Central Middle School585 students
- 5Anniston Avenue Elementary School535 students
- 6West Elementary School523 students
- 7Central Elem480 students
- 8Pass Road Elementary School398 students
- Enrollment+26.6%
- Teachers+58.6%
- Students per teacher−4.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+0.2%
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