Fairhope Middle School

Fairhope Middle School is a substantial middle school in Fairhope, Alabama, operated by Baldwin County. The school enrolls 775 students in grades 7 through 8. That puts it 53% above the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 508 students.

Within Baldwin County, which oversees 42 schools and 31,965 students, Fairhope Middle School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Fairhope Middle School shows that White students make up the majority at 77%; the rest breaks down as 11% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Fairhope Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 27% of students at Fairhope Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Baldwin County (around 40%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Fairhope Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.2%, the actual is 68.9%, a residual of +4.8 points.

Around the school, Baldwin County reports that median household earnings sit near $78,775, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Fairhope Middle School is one of 51 public schools in Baldwin County (combined enrollment of about 35,975 students).

Fairhope High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Fairhope Middle School. On composite proficiency, Fairhope Middle School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 38.7%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Fairhope Middle School's enrollment has decreased 11% since 2018, when it stood at 871 (now 775). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 81% to 77%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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