Burns Middle School

Set in Mobile, Alabama, Burns Middle School is a reasonably sized intermediate school, one of the schools within Mobile County. It educates 568 students across grades 6 through 8.

Mobile County runs 85 schools in total, collectively educating 49,946 students. Burns Middle School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Burns Middle School records that the largest single group is Black, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 20% White, 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Mobile County (around 67%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Burns Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.6%, the actual is 22.3%, a residual of -6.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Mobile County put the typical household earns roughly $58,880 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Burns Middle School is one of 107 public schools in Mobile County (combined enrollment of about 59,070 students).

Nearest neighbor: Olive J Dodge Elementary School, around 1.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Burns Middle School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 34.8%.

Burns Middle School operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 33%: 843 students in 2018 compared to 568 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 27% to 20%. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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