Bay Minette Middle School

Bay Minette Middle School is an average-sized intermediate school in Bay Minette, Alabama, operated by Baldwin County. The school works with 432 students in grades 7 through 8.

Baldwin County runs 42 schools in total, collectively educating 31,965 students. Bay Minette Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bay Minette Middle School reports that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 31% Black, 10% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 2% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Bay Minette Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Baldwin County's rate of about 40%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bay Minette Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.1%, the actual is 34.2%, a residual of -4.9 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Baldwin County indicate median household earnings sit near $78,775, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Baldwin County runs 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,975 students), of which Bay Minette Middle School is one.

Baldwin County High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Bay Minette Middle School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bay Minette Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 36.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Bay Minette Middle School's enrollment has declined 10% since 2018, when it stood at 480 (now 432). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 60% to 53% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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