Dauphin Junior High School

Dauphin Junior High School is one of the middle-of-the-pack intermediate schools in Enterprise, Alabama, overseen by Enterprise City, with 481 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8.

Enterprise City runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 6,612 students. Dauphin Junior High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Dauphin Junior High School logs that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 17% Black, 17% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 71% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Dauphin Junior High School has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Coffee County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Dauphin Junior High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 67.8%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Coffee County) logs that median household earnings sit near $68,353, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Coffee County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,168 students), Dauphin Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Holly Hill Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dauphin Junior High School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 34.9%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Dauphin Junior High School's enrollment has fell 26% since 2018, when it stood at 648 (now 481). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 12% to 17% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.

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