Public school / Middle
Ridgewood Middle
Arnold, Missouri
- NCES ID
- 291230000502
- District
- Fox C-6
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Ridgewood Middle is a public middle school in Arnold, Missouri, run by Fox C-6. It enrols 616 students — the 25374th largest of 2,483 public schools in Missouri.
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
616
Teachers
48.0
Students per teacher
12.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
40.6%
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 Fox C-6
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.
- 1Seckman Sr. High1,793 students
- 2Fox Sr. High1,742 students
- 3Seckman Middle725 students
- 4Fox Middle632 students
- 5Ridgewood Middle616 students
- 6Antonia Middle School551 students
- 7Seckman Elem.486 students
- 8George Guffey Elem.483 students
- Enrollment+82.8%
- Teachers+100.0%
- Students per teacher−0.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−18.1%
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