Enrollment
311
Middle
DISTRICT 550 · STATE 508
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOBILE COUNTY·NCES 010237002509
Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies
504 Government Street, Mobile, AL 36602 · (251) 221-1040 · Mobile County
GRADES 06–09MIDDLE12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL311 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 97% of Alabama public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Alabama public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.5:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
64 students
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 91 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 82 | 26% |
| Grade 8 | 77 | 25% |
| Grade 9 | 61 | 20% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
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ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
95.1%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
67.6%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 95 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
Source: ACAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
82.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.0%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Alabama's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies
Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies's state test result (82.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies this school | 311 | 20.6% | 82.9% |
| Pike Road Jr High School Pike Road | 449 | 22.9% | 60.5% |
| Pike Road Intermediate School Pike Road | 652 | 25.2% | 63.5% |
| Liberty Park Middle School Vestavia | 514 | 9.7% | 76.9% |
| Tuscaloosa Magnet School Middle Tuscaloosa | 173 | 30.1% | 73.5% |
| Challenger Middle School Huntsville | 425 | 35.3% | 57.6% |
Matched among Alabama middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Mobile County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.9% | #2 of 260 | #1 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.6% | #4 of 260 | #1 of 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 95.1% | #2 of 260 | #1 of 20 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 311 | #206 of 265 | #17 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.4:1 | #64 of 244 | #6 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.1% | #87 of 246 | #8 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.6% | #258 of 264 | #20 of 20 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 311 | 19 | 16.4:1 | 21% (64) |
| 2023-24 | 272 | 19 | 14.3:1 | 29% (79) |
| 2022-23 | 252 | 19 | 13.3:1 | 28% (71) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies.
About Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies
Located in Mobile, Alabama, Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies is a small middle school. It has an enrollment of 311 students in grades 6 through 9. That compares with an average of about 508 students for middle schools in Alabama.
Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies is one school in an 85-school district, Mobile County, which enrolls 49,946 students.
More than half of enrollment at Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies is White: 62%. The remaining shares are 25% Black, 6% Asian, 4% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies scores 55%.
There are about 16.4 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies, which has 19. By comparison, the average for middle schools in Alabama is 17.9:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies is about 21%. The rate at public schools in Mobile County averages 67%, higher than here.
Among Alabama public middle schools, Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies outscored 97%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies is 14.0 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Alabama schools.
Looking at the county, Mobile County, median household income comes to about $58,880, about 26% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. The county has 107 public schools and about 59,070 students.
Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies's nearest public school is Dunbar Creative Performing Arts (about 0.4 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies is 2nd of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, according to its NCES locale (City: Mid-size).
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Mobile County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
412,590
Census ACS
Median income
$58,880
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
107
59,070 students
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- Erwin Craighead Elementary School1.9 mi · 380
Frequently asked questions
About Barton Academy For Advanced World StudiesWhat is the total enrollment at Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies?
Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies enrolls approximately 311 students in grades 06-09.
What grades does Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies serve?
Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies serves grades 06-09.
How many teachers does Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies have?
Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies employs 19 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies?
Student demographics at Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies are roughly 62% White, 4% Hispanic, 25% Black, 6% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies?
Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies is overseen by Mobile County in Mobile County.
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