Gadsden Middle School

Gadsden Middle School is one of the average-sized 6-8 campuss in Gadsden, Alabama, overseen by Gadsden City, with 438 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Within Gadsden City, which oversees 12 schools and 4,940 students, Gadsden Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Gadsden Middle School reports that the most-represented group is Black (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 28% White, 19% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.6:1. The state averages about 17.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Gadsden Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.5%, the actual is 40.6%, a residual of +3.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Etowah County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $54,563 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Etowah County's 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,139 students), Gadsden Middle School is one campus in the mix.

W E Striplin Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Gadsden Middle School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 35.3%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Gadsden Middle School's enrollment has fell 4% since 2018, when it stood at 454 (now 438). Hispanic enrollment moved from 14% to 19% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

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