Hokes Bluff Middle School

Hokes Bluff Middle School is one of the modestly sized middle schools in Hokes Bluff, Alabama, run under Etowah County, with 253 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 50% smaller than the state mean of about 508.

Within Etowah County, which oversees 22 schools and 8,739 students, Hokes Bluff Middle School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Hokes Bluff Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). The remainder breaks down as 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Etowah County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Hokes Bluff Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 47% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Etowah County's rate of about 58%.

With demographic context factored in, Hokes Bluff Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 50.2%, a residual of +0.1 points.

In the broader community, Etowah County reports that median household earnings sit near $54,563, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Etowah County runs 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,139 students), of which Hokes Bluff Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Hokes Bluff Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Hokes Bluff Middle School. On composite proficiency, Hokes Bluff Middle School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.4%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Hokes Bluff Middle School's enrollment has contracted 15% since 2018, when it stood at 299 (now 253). Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.