Middle · West Virginia
Independence Middle School
Independence Middle School, a public middle school in Coal City, West Virginia: grades 6–8, 401 students, 11.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Raleigh 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
- 401
- Teachers (FTE)
- 35.0
- Students per teacher
- 11.5
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 79% of middle schools in West Virginia
Median 13.2 · 110 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 80% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Smaller than 50% of middle schools in West Virginia
Median 405 · 110 schools compared
Smaller than 64% 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
- Some virtual classes
- Area
- Rural area near a city
- Run by
- Raleigh County Schools
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Raleigh County Schools.
Location
- Address
- 800 Independence Rd, Coal City, WV 25823
- Phone
- (304)683-4542
- City or town
- Coal City
- County
- Raleigh 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 | 391 | 12.0 | |
| 6–8 | 599 | 13.3 | |
| 6–8 | 590 | 8.9 | |
| 6–8 | 331 | 9.9 | |
Mullens Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 5–8 | 144 | 12.3 |
Pineville Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 5–8 | 218 | 14.0 |
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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