Calera Middle

Set in Montevallo, Alabama, Calera Middle is a sizable middle school, overseen by Shelby County. It instructs 767 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 508 students each, so Calera Middle sits 51% above that benchmark.

Shelby County comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 20,638 students; Calera Middle is among them.

On demographics, Calera Middle logs that 43% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 36% White, 14% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Shelby County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Calera Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.6%, the actual is 34.8%, a residual of -3.8 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Shelby County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,961, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Calera Middle is one of 48 public schools in Shelby County (combined enrollment of about 35,120 students).

Meadow View Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Calera Middle. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Calera Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 36.4%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Calera Middle has ticked up 11%, going from 694 students in 2018 to 767 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 55% to 36%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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