Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Salem Middle School, Salem, IN

CEP schoolSalem Middle School is a public middle school in Salem, part of Salem Community Schools. It enrolled 352 students in 2024-25, with 11.0 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 352
Teachers (FTE): 32.0
Students per teacher: 11.0
Grades: 6 to 8

This school's ratio is 1.2 lower than the district figure of 12.2. The Indiana average across schools is 15.5. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school11.0

District12.2

Indiana15.5

United States15.3

School details

Address: 1001 N Harrison St, Salem, IN 47167
Phone: (812)883-3808
District: Salem Community Schools
County: Washington County
Level: Middle
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Fringe
NCES school ID: 180981001601

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 156
Reduced-price lunch: 23
Free or reduced-price lunch: 17950.9% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 138Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.