📍 309 Wooten Street, Mount Olive, Wayne County, 28365
Mount Olive Middle is a State/Public serving middle age pupils, located in Mount Olive, Wayne County. The school has 377 pupils enrolled. It is part of the Wayne County Public Schools school district. It serves grades 5–8 in a rural setting. The school employs 20.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 18.3:1. 35% of students are proficient in reading. 20% are proficient in maths. Technology infrastructure includes fiber internet, campus-wide Wi-Fi.
Mount Olive Middle enrolls 377 students across grades 5–8. The student body is 53% male and 47% female. A teaching staff of 20.6 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 18.3:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 42% Hispanic or Latino, 36% Black or African American and 20% White.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hispanic or Latino | 159 | 42% |
| Black or African American | 136 | 36% |
| White | 74 | 20% |
| Two or more races | 8 | 2.1% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
372 of the school's 377 students (99%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Of these, 372 qualify for free lunch and 0 for a reduced price. The school participates in the National School Lunch Program. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Mount Olive Middle is located in a rural setting (NCES locale: Rural, Distant). The school runs a schoolwide Title I program, which provides federal funding to support students from low-income families. For civic and policy purposes, the school sits in congressional district NC-10, state senate district 7, state house district 21.
Mount Olive Middle is one of 33 schools in Wayne County Public Schools, based in Goldsboro, North Carolina. The district serves 17,150 students district-wide and employs 1,098 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 377 students, Mount Olive Middle is smaller than the district average of about 520 students per school.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Proficiency based on state assessments.
Setting: Rural - Distant