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Public school / Middle

Northside Middle

West Columbia, South Carolina

NCES ID
450273001271
District
Lexington 02
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Northside Middle is a public middle school in West Columbia, South Carolina, run by Lexington 02. It enrols 555 students — the 31059th largest of 1,288 public schools in South Carolina.

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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

555students

31059th nationally, tied with 106

Teachers

41.0FTE

23419th nationally, tied with 1,277

Students per teacher

13.5students

32983rd nationally, tied with 970

Free or reduced-price lunch

90.6%percent

13121st nationally, tied with 123

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 Lexington 02

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. 1Airport High1,428 students
  2. 2Brookland-Cayce High1,171 students
  3. 3Riverbank Elementary1,015 students
  4. 4Cayce Elementary998 students
  5. 5Herbert A. Wood Elementary967 students
  6. 6R. H. Fulmer Middle568 students
  7. 7Northside Middle555 students
  8. 8Cyril B. Busbee Creative Arts Academy420 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: South Carolina median across 1,288 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−2.1%
  • Teachers+5.1%
  • Students per teacher−4.6%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch0.0%
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Where this sits

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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.