Middle · Missouri
Central Middle
Free meals for allCentral Middle, a public middle school in Cape Girardeau, Missouri: grades 5–6, 623 students, 13.2 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Cape Girardeau 63.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 623
- Teachers (FTE)
- 47.4
- Students per teacher
- 13.2
- Grades
- 5–6
- Middle
More students per teacher than 55% of middle schools in Missouri
Median 13.0 · 395 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 64% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Larger than 73% of middle schools in Missouri
Median 426 · 395 schools compared
Larger than 61% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on Missouri's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
Missouri: 42%34%proficient
+6.7 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 66% of middle schools in Missouri
Median 40% · 386 middle schools compared
607 students tested, grades 5, 6 · MAP; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
Missouri: 41%34%proficient
+1.1 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 66% of middle schools in Missouri
Median 41% · 389 middle schools compared
608 students tested, grades 5, 6 · MAP; proficient means Levels 3-4
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 5–6
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Small city
- Run by
- Cape Girardeau 63
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Cape Girardeau 63.
Location
- Address
- 1900 Thilenius, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
- Phone
- (573)334-6281
- City or town
- Cape Girardeau
- County
- Cape Girardeau County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Central Jr. HighFree meals for all | 7–8 | 633 | 11.7 |
| 5–8 | 223 | 9.8 | |
| 7–8 | 867 | 14.5 | |
| 5–6 | 850 | 14.5 | |
Egyptian Jr High SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 69 | 13.5 |
Shawnee Jr High SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 62 | 12.4 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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