Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Central Middle, Dobson, NC

Central Middle is a public middle school in Dobson, part of Surry County Schools. It enrolled 502 students in 2024-25, with 16.7 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 502
Teachers (FTE): 30.0
Students per teacher: 16.7
Grades: 6 to 8

This school's ratio is 1.3 higher than the district figure of 15.4. The North Carolina average across schools is 16.3. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school16.7

District15.4

North Carolina16.3

United States15.3

School details

Address: 883 Zephyr Rd, Dobson, NC 27017
Phone: (336)386-4018
District: Surry County Schools
County: Surry County
Level: Middle
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Distant
NCES school ID: 370441002279

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School meals

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

Free lunch: 499
Reduced-price lunch: 0
Free or reduced-price lunch: 49999.4% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

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.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Surry County Schools

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

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.