Austin Junior High School

Austin Junior High School is a reasonably sized four-year high school in Decatur, Alabama, run under Decatur City. The school serves 664 students in grades 8 through 9.

Austin Junior High School is one of 19 schools operated by Decatur City, a district that educates 8,902 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Austin Junior High School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 30% Black, 26% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Morgan County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.2:1, putting Austin Junior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Morgan County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Austin Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.0%, the actual is 31.9%, a residual of -5.1 points.

Around the school, census data for Morgan County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,845 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Austin Junior High School is one of 46 public schools in Morgan County (combined enrollment of about 20,204 students).

Nearest neighbor: Career Academies of Decatur, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Austin Junior High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

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