Middle · Regular · Grades 7 to 8
Harry M Arndt Middle, Hickory, NC
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 601
- Teachers (FTE)
- 35.0
- Students per teacher
- 17.2
- Grades
- 7 to 8
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 17.4. The North Carolina average across schools is 16.3. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 3350 34th Street Drive NE, Hickory, NC 28601
- Phone
- (828)256-9545
- District
- Catawba County Schools
- County
- Catawba County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 370069000283
School meals
- Free lunch
- 586
- Reduced-price lunch
- 12
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 59899.5% 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 Catawba County Schools
- Jacobs Fork Middle 482 students
- Mill Creek Middle 477 students
- Maiden Middle School 451 students
- River Bend Middle 450 students
Middle schools elsewhere in Hickory
- Northview Middle Hickory City Schools
- Grandview Middle Hickory City 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.