Dunbar Creative Performing Arts

Dunbar Creative Performing Arts is a junior high of close-knit scale in Mobile, Alabama, run under Mobile County, works with 338 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 33% below the state mean of about 508.

Across the 85 schools in Mobile County (49,946 students total), Dunbar Creative Performing Arts accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Dunbar Creative Performing Arts records that 83% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder breaks down as 10% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Mobile County as a whole is about 36% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Dunbar Creative Performing Arts has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Dunbar Creative Performing Arts tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.6%.

Around the school, census data for Mobile County shows the typical household earns roughly $58,880 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Mobile County runs 107 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,070 students), of which Dunbar Creative Performing Arts is one.

Nearest neighbor: Calloway Smith Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Dunbar Creative Performing Arts comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 33.2%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Dunbar Creative Performing Arts's enrollment has edged down 29% since 2018, when it stood at 474 (now 338). White enrollment moved from 21% to 10% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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