Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

West Side Middle School, Charleston, WV

CEP schoolWest Side Middle School is a public middle school in Charleston, part of Kanawha County Schools. It enrolled 374 students in 2024-25, with 12.5 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 374
Teachers (FTE): 30.0
Students per teacher: 12.5
Grades: 6 to 8

This school's ratio is 1.1 lower than the district figure of 13.6. The West Virginia average across schools is 13.6. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school12.5

District13.6

West Virginia13.6

United States15.3

School details

Address: 812 Park Ave, Charleston, WV 25302
Phone: (304)348-6123
District: Kanawha County Schools
County: Kanawha County
Level: Middle
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Locale: City: Small
NCES school ID: 540060001442

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School meals

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

Direct certification: 260Students 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.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Kanawha County Schools

John Adams Middle School 740 students
Elkview Middle School 621 students
Sissonville Middle School 521 students
Andrew Jackson Middle School 488 students
Hayes Middle School 464 students
Du Pont Middle School 440 students
Horace Mann Middle School 385 students
South Charleston Middle School 354 students
Dunbar Middle School 325 students
McKinley Middle School 255 students
East Bank Middle School 227 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.