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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Chase Middle School, Forest City, NC

Chase Middle School is a public middle school in Forest City, part of Rutherford County Schools. It enrolled 484 students in 2024-25, with 18.6 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
484
Teachers (FTE)
26.0
Students per teacher
18.6
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 18.4. The North Carolina average across schools is 16.3. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school18.6
District18.4
North Carolina16.3
United States15.3

School details

Address
840 Chase High Rd, Forest City, NC 28043
Phone
(828)247-1043
District
Rutherford County Schools
County
Rutherford County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Rural: Fringe
NCES school ID
370408001283
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
470
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
47097.1% 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 Rutherford 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.