Middle · North Carolina
West McDowell Middle School
West McDowell Middle School, a public middle school in Marion, North Carolina: grades 6–8, 550 students, 15.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of McDowell County Schools.
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
- 550
- Teachers (FTE)
- 35.5
- Students per teacher
- 15.5
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 58% of middle schools in North Carolina
Median 16.2 · 475 schools compared
More students per teacher than 58% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Smaller than 56% of middle schools in North Carolina
Median 589 · 477 schools compared
Larger than 53% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Rural area near a city
- Run by
- McDowell County Schools
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with McDowell County Schools.
Location
- Address
- 346 West McDowell Junior High, Marion, NC 28752
- Phone
- (828)652-3390
- County
- McDowell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6–8 | 392 | 11.3 | |
| 6–8 | 200 | 18.0 | |
| 6–8 | 427 | 14.0 | |
| 6–8 | 380 | 14.0 | |
| 6–8 | 259 | 13.0 | |
| 6–8 | 457 | 13.7 |
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).
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