Duran Junior High School

Duran Junior High School, an average-sized middle school in Pell City, Alabama, overseen by Pell City, hosts 601 students, covering grades 7 through 8.

Pell City comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,079 students; Duran Junior High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Duran Junior High School logs that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 15% Black, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.8:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, St. Clair County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Duran Junior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.2%; this one delivers 35.6%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (St. Clair County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $77,463 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Duran Junior High School is one of 29 public schools in St. Clair County (combined enrollment of about 13,737 students).

Nearest neighbor: Pell City High School, around 0.1 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Duran Junior High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 35.1%.

Duran Junior High School operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 119%: 274 students in 2018 compared to 601 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 84% to 74% across the same window.

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