ChastangFournier Middle School

ChastangFournier Middle School is an elementary campus of mid-sized scale in Mobile, Alabama, part of Mobile County, instructing 503 students in grades K through 8.

Across the 85 schools in Mobile County (49,946 students total), ChastangFournier Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, ChastangFournier Middle School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%). Beyond that, the school lists 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting ChastangFournier Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Mobile County's rate of about 67%.

With demographic context factored in, ChastangFournier Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 17.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 18.7%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Mobile County indicate the typical household earns roughly $58,880 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Mobile County runs 107 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,070 students), of which ChastangFournier Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: The Pathway, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ChastangFournier Middle School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.8%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ChastangFournier Middle School has shrank 26%, going from 681 students in 2018 to 503 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 96% to 90% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2025.

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