Dothan 6th Grade Center

Dothan 6th Grade Center, a moderately sized middle-grades school in Dothan, Alabama, operated by Dothan City, instructs 449 students, covering grade 6.

Dothan City runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 8,220 students. Dothan 6th Grade Center is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Dothan 6th Grade Center reports that 68% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder looks like 17% White, 10% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Dothan 6th Grade Center higher than the state norm the norm. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Houston County (around 63%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Dothan 6th Grade Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.9%, the actual is 18.1%, a residual of -8.8 points.

In the area at large, Houston County reports that the typical household earns roughly $58,626 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Houston County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,127 students), of which Dothan 6th Grade Center is one.

Girard Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Dothan 6th Grade Center comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 36.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dothan 6th Grade Center has fell 8%, going from 490 students in 2018 to 449 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 79% to 68% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 in 2025.

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