Bellingrath Middle School

Bellingrath Middle School is a middle-grades school of mid-sized scale in Montgomery, Alabama, part of Montgomery County, enrolling 583 students in grades 6 through 8.

Montgomery County runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 26,958 students. Bellingrath Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Bellingrath Middle School lists that 80% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder comes out to 17% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 59% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Montgomery County (around 67%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Bellingrath Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.4%, the actual is 8.0%, a residual of -12.5 points.

Around the school, Montgomery County reports that median household earnings sit near $59,386, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, Montgomery County runs 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,131 students), of which Bellingrath Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Davis Elementary School, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bellingrath Middle School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.2%.

Bellingrath Middle School operates from a downtown location. As a public charter, Bellingrath Middle School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bellingrath Middle School has increased 27%, going from 459 students in 2018 to 583 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 98% to 80% across the same window.

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