Berry Middle School

Berry Middle School operates as a heavily attended middle-grades school in Hoover, Alabama, one of the schools within Hoover City. Current enrollment sits at 1,058 students spanning grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 508 students each, so Berry Middle School sits 108% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 16 schools in Hoover City (13,632 students total), Berry Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Berry Middle School shows that White students make up the majority at 58%. The remainder breaks down as 20% Black, 9% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Shelby County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Berry Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.1%, the actual is 71.4%, a residual of +9.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for Shelby County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,961 per year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Shelby County's 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,120 students), Berry Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Spain Park High School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Berry Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Berry Middle School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 37.6%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Berry Middle School has contracted 10%, going from 1,179 students in 2018 to 1,058 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 63% to 58% over that span.

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