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Erwin Intermediate School
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Erwin Intermediate School
Erwin Intermediate School is one of the average-sized elementary schools in Center Point, Alabama, overseen by Jefferson County, with 510 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5.
Jefferson County comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 35,444 students; Erwin Intermediate School is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Erwin Intermediate School logs that nearly all students (84%) are Black. The remainder consists of 14% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 42% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.4:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Jefferson County's rate of about 52%.
With demographic context factored in, Erwin Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.3%, the actual is 24.9%, a residual of +0.6 points.
Around the school, census data for Jefferson County shows median household income runs about $66,388, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jefferson County's 181 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students), Erwin Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Erwin Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Erwin Intermediate School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.8%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Erwin Intermediate School's enrollment has ticked down 23% since 2018, when it stood at 661 (now 510). Black enrollment moved from 93% to 84% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 in 2025.
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