Enrollment
270
Middle
DISTRICT 550 · STATE 508
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOBILE COUNTY·NCES 010237000901
Booker T Washington Middle School
1961 Andrews St, Mobile, AL 36617 · (251) 221-2361 · Mobile County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL270 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 30% of Alabama public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
14.2:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.5:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
250 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 | 102 | 38% |
| Grade 7 | 69 | 26% |
| Grade 8 | 99 | 37% |
Student demographics
13%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
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ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
31.3%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
6.4%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 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
18.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.7%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% 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 Booker T Washington Middle School
Booker T Washington Middle School's state test result (18.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Booker T Washington Middle School this school | 270 | 92.6% | 18.5% |
| The RBHudson STEAM Academy Selma | 279 | 93.2% | 16.2% |
| Calloway Smith Middle School Mobile | 315 | 90.5% | 24.9% |
| Robert Brown Middle School Eutaw | 309 | 90.0% | 13.8% |
| Greensboro Middle School Greensboro | 215 | 89.8% | 24.8% |
| Escambia County Middle School Atmore | 278 | 89.6% | 15.5% |
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 Booker T Washington Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Mobile County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.5% | #224 of 260 | #16 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 6.4% | #230 of 260 | #16 of 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.3% | #228 of 260 | #17 of 20 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 270 | #227 of 265 | #18 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #11 of 244 | #2 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 13.4% | #237 of 246 | #17 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.6% | #6 of 264 | #2 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +21.1% | #23 of 79 | N/A |
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.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
270
-99 (-27%) vs 2020
-66% since 1990-91, when it was 795
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 33.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 270 | 19 | 14.2:1 | 93% (250) |
| 2023-24 | 305 | 20 | 15.3:1 | 95% (290) |
| 2022-23 | 340 | 17 | 20.0:1 | 95% (324) |
| 2020-21 | 369 | 11 | 33.5:1 | 95% (351) |
| 2017-18 | 223 | 10 | 22.3:1 | 95% (211) |
| 2015-16 | 233 | 10 | 23.3:1 | 81% (188) |
| 2010-11 | 427 | 28 | 15.3:1 | 93% (395) |
| 2000-01 | 603 | 33 | 18.3:1 | 94% (569) |
| 1990-91 | 795 | 38 | 20.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Booker T Washington Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 21% (223 to 270); teachers up 90% (10 to 19).
About Booker T Washington Middle School
Booker T Washington Middle School, located in Mobile, Alabama, is a low-enrollment middle-grades school. Total enrollment is 270 students, and the grades served are 6 through 8. That is 47% below the average of about 508 students for middle schools in Alabama.
District-wide, Mobile County has 85 schools and 49,946 students.
Black students are 93% of those enrolled at Booker T Washington Middle School. The remaining shares are 4% Hispanic and 2% White. Census estimates put the Black share of Mobile County's population at about 36%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 13%.
The school's 19 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.2:1. The average for middle schools in Alabama is 17.9:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. At Booker T Washington Middle School, 93% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Mobile County is 67%.
Among Alabama public middle schools, Booker T Washington Middle School outscored 30%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 16.7% at Booker T Washington Middle School; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 18.5%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Mobile County show that the median household earns about $58,880 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 26%, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. Across Mobile County, 107 public schools serve about 59,070 students.
Continuous Learning Center, about 0.2 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Booker T Washington Middle School places 6th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES describes the area around Booker T Washington Middle School as City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school's enrollment decreased 27% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 33.5:1 to 14.2:1.
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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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Frequently asked questions
About Booker T Washington Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Booker T Washington Middle School?
Booker T Washington Middle School enrolls approximately 270 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Booker T Washington Middle School serve?
Booker T Washington Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Booker T Washington Middle School have?
Booker T Washington Middle School employs 19 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Booker T Washington Middle School?
Student demographics at Booker T Washington Middle School are roughly 2% White, 4% Hispanic, 93% Black, 1% Two or more.
What district is Booker T Washington Middle School in?
Booker T Washington Middle School is part of Mobile County.
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