Double Springs Middle School

Double Springs Middle School is a micro-enrollment middle school in Double Springs, Alabama, one of the schools within Winston County. The school instructs 176 students in grades 5 through 7. Enrollment runs roughly 65% smaller than the state mean of about 508.

Winston County comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 2,309 students; Double Springs Middle School is among them.

Demographically, Double Springs Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%); the rest comes out to 3% Hispanic.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Roughly 63% of students at Double Springs Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Winston County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Double Springs Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.5%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Winston County indicate the typical household earns roughly $57,256 per year, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Double Springs Middle School is one of 14 public schools in Winston County (combined enrollment of about 3,906 students).

The closest other public school is Winston County High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Double Springs Middle School. On composite proficiency, Double Springs Middle School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 32.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 31%: 255 students in 2018 compared to 176 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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