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Enrollment
738
Middle
DISTRICT 518 · STATE 508
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TUSCALOOSA COUNTY·NCES 010339001462
Echols Middle School
2701 Echols Ave, Northport, AL 35476 · (205) 342-2884 · Tuscaloosa County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL738 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.1:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
407 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 58%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 371 | 50% |
| Grade 8 | 367 | 50% |
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
55.6%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
19.3%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
Source: ACAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
37.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.9%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Alabama's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Where Echols Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Tuscaloosa County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.9% | #151 of 260 | #7 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.3% | #161 of 260 | #8 of 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.6% | #135 of 260 | #6 of 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 738 | #49 of 265 | #2 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #104 of 244 | #5 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.0% | #25 of 246 | #2 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.1% | #152 of 264 | #6 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.2% | #72 of 79 | #7 of 8 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
738
-60 (-8%) vs 2020
+74% since 2000-01, when it was 424
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 21.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 738 | 42 | 17.6:1 | 55% (407) |
| 2023-24 | 841 | 44 | 19.1:1 | 61% (513) |
| 2022-23 | 878 | 42.1 | 20.9:1 | 64% (563) |
| 2020-21 | 798 | 38 | 21.0:1 | 41% (329) |
| 2017-18 | 729 | 32.4 | 22.5:1 | 33% (242) |
| 2015-16 | 685 | 32 | 21.4:1 | 35% (241) |
| 2010-11 | 621 | 48 | 12.9:1 | 45% (278) |
| 2000-01 | 424 | 25 | 17.0:1 | 31% (131) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Echols Middle School.
About Echols Middle School
Federal records list Echols Middle School as a middle-grades school in Northport, Alabama. The school has 738 students in 2024-25 across grades 7 through 8. Middle schools in Alabama average about 508 students, which makes this school 45% larger than average.
Echols Middle School is one school in a 35-school district, Tuscaloosa County, which enrolls 19,278 students.
White students account for 47% of enrollment at Echols Middle School, more than any other group. Smaller groups are 29% Black and 20% Hispanic. County-wide, 60% of Tuscaloosa County residents are White. The diversity index for Echols Middle School is 65%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 17.6 students per teacher. The average for middle schools in Alabama is about 17.9:1. Echols Middle School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 55%. Public schools in Tuscaloosa County average a similar 54%.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Echols Middle School falls in the middle 80% of Alabama schools: 37.9% actual against 43.9% predicted.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Tuscaloosa County show that the median household earns about $66,231 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 32%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Tuscaloosa County counts 58 public schools with about 30,508 students.
Of the public schools around it, Echols Middle School is closest to Lloyd Wood Education Center, about 0.2 miles away. Echols Middle School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Echols Middle School's average proficiency of 37.9% compares with 34.6% for its nearest scored neighbors.
NCES assigns Echols Middle School the locale Suburb: Mid-size, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 738, compared with 798 in 2020-21. Students per teacher dropped from 21.0 in 2020-21 to 17.6 in 2024-25.
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Tuscaloosa County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
237,552
Census ACS
Median income
$66,231
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
58
30,508 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Tuscaloosa County
- Tuscaloosa County High SchoolHigh · 1,607 students
- Hillcrest High SchoolHigh · 1,434 students
- Brookwood High SchoolHigh · 1,076 students
- Lake View Elementary SchoolElementary · 744 students
- Walker Elementary SchoolElementary · 743 students
- Brookwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 738 students
Other schools in Northport
- Tuscaloosa County High SchoolHigh · 1,607 students
- Walker Elementary SchoolElementary · 743 students
- Northport Elementary SchoolElementary · 558 students
- Northside High SchoolHigh · 535 students
- Northport Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 500 students
- Flatwoods Elementary SchoolElementary · 459 students
Nearby schools
- Lloyd Wood Education Center0.2 mi · 205
- Crestmont Elementary School0.6 mi · 268
- FaucettVestavia Elementary School1.0 mi · 343
- Matthews Elementary School1.1 mi · 401
- CollinsRiverside Middle School1.2 mi · 318
- Central Elementary School2.4 mi · 291
Frequently asked questions
About Echols Middle SchoolHow many students attend Echols Middle School?
Echols Middle School enrolls approximately 738 students in grades 07-08.
What age range does Echols Middle School serve?
Echols Middle School serves students from grade 07 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Echols Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Echols Middle School is approximately 17.6:1 (42 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Echols Middle School?
Echols Middle School reports a student body of 47% White, 20% Hispanic, 29% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Echols Middle School?
Echols Middle School is overseen by Tuscaloosa County in Tuscaloosa County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.