Homewood Middle School

Homewood Middle School is an expansive middle school in Homewood, Alabama, run under Homewood City. The school serves 1,000 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 97% bigger than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 508 students.

Homewood City comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 4,492 students; Homewood Middle School is among them.

On demographics, Homewood Middle School logs that White students make up the majority at 67%. Beyond that, the school reports 17% Black, 11% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 48% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Homewood Middle School reports 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Homewood Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.4%; this one delivers 72.8%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) shows that median household income runs about $66,388, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), Homewood Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Edgewood Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Homewood Middle School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.5%.

Homewood Middle School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Homewood Middle School has grew 4%, going from 960 students in 2018 to 1,000 in 2025. The White share of enrollment increased from 62% to 67% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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