Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Southwest Middle, Gastonia, NC
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 832
- Teachers (FTE)
- 54.0
- Students per teacher
- 15.4
- Grades
- 6 to 8
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 15.9. 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
- 1 Roadrunner Drive, Gastonia, NC 28052
- Phone
- (704)866-6290
- District
- Gaston County Schools
- County
- Gaston County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Small
- NCES school ID
- 370162000712
School meals
- Free lunch
- 829
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 82999.6% 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 Gaston County Schools
- Cramerton Middle 959 students
- Belmont Middle 770 students
- Holbrook Middle 712 students
- W P Grier Middle School 659 students
- W C Friday Middle School 618 students
- Stanley Middle 602 students
- Mount Holly Middle 570 students
- Bessemer City Middle 497 students
- John Chavis Middle School 412 students
- York Chester Middle 398 students
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.