ClarkShaw Magnet School

ClarkShaw Magnet School is one of the reasonably sized middle-grades schools in Mobile, Alabama, overseen by Mobile County, with 582 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 9.

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

On demographics, ClarkShaw Magnet School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 63% of enrollment; the rest looks like 23% White, 6% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Mobile County as a whole is about 36% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, ClarkShaw Magnet School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting ClarkShaw Magnet School higher than the state norm the norm. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Mobile County's rate of about 67%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ClarkShaw Magnet School ranks in the top 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 49.0%; ClarkShaw Magnet School posts 68.4%, +19.4 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Mobile County shows the typical household earns roughly $58,880 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Mobile County runs 107 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,070 students), of which ClarkShaw Magnet School is one.

John Will Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ClarkShaw Magnet School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 34.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 29%: 825 students in 2018 compared to 582 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 46% to 23%. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 in 2025.

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