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Which teacher or staff member at Irondale Middle School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
430
Middle
DISTRICT 642 · STATE 508
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JEFFERSON COUNTY·NCES 010192002117
Irondale Middle School
6200 Old Leeds Road, Irondale, AL 35210 · (205) 379-3800 · Jefferson County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL430 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of Alabama public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Alabama public middle schools
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.8:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
321 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 58%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 123 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 159 | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 148 | 34% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
39.8%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
3.4%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 3 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
Source: ACAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
21.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.7%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Alabama's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Irondale Middle School
Irondale Middle School's state test result (21.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Irondale Middle School this school | 430 | 74.7% | 21.4% |
| DavisEmerson Middle School Cottondale | 397 | 79.3% | 22.4% |
| Rudd Middle School Pinson | 648 | 71.3% | 22.9% |
| Ronald McNair 78 Huntsville | 390 | 77.4% | 16.6% |
| CollinsRiverside Middle School Northport | 318 | 74.5% | 34.3% |
| Litchfield Middle School Gadsden | 252 | 80.2% | 17.8% |
Matched among Alabama middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Irondale Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.4% | #217 of 260 | #16 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 3.4% | #243 of 260 | #22 of 30 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.8% | #203 of 260 | #13 of 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 430 | #144 of 265 | #19 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #53 of 244 | #6 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.1% | #65 of 246 | #4 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.7% | #62 of 264 | #16 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.2% | #53 of 151 | #6 of 17 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
430
-87 (-17%) vs 2020
-34% since 2010-11, when it was 652
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 17.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 430 | 27 | 15.9:1 | 75% (321) |
| 2023-24 | 471 | 27 | 17.4:1 | 58% (272) |
| 2022-23 | 467 | 26.5 | 17.6:1 | 58% (270) |
| 2020-21 | 517 | 30 | 17.2:1 | 83% (427) |
| 2017-18 | 513 | 28 | 18.3:1 | 77% (396) |
| 2015-16 | 532 | 29 | 18.3:1 | 67% (357) |
| 2010-11 | 652 | 42 | 15.5:1 | 67% (434) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Irondale Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (513 to 430); teachers down 4% (28 to 27).
About Irondale Middle School
Irondale Middle School is a small middle school in Irondale, Alabama, one of the schools in Jefferson County. Students in grades 6 through 8 attend the school, which enrolls 430 students.
Jefferson County has 35,444 students in 55 schools, and Irondale Middle School is one of those schools.
At Irondale Middle School, Black students make up 53% of the student body. The remaining shares are 35% Hispanic, 9% White, and 3% multiracial. Jefferson County as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 59% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The count of teachers at Irondale Middle School is 27 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 15.9:1. That is lower than the 17.9:1 average for middle schools in Alabama. The school counts 321 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 75%. It compares with 52% for public schools in Jefferson County.
allk12 grades Irondale Middle School a D. The grade compares the school only with Alabama public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Schools in Alabama with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 29.7%. Irondale Middle School scores 21.4%.
Irondale Middle School is located in Jefferson County, where the median household income is $66,388, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Irondale Middle School is one of 181 public schools in the county.
Shades Valley High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles away. Within five miles of Irondale Middle School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Irondale Middle School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Irondale Middle School as Suburb: Large.
Enrollment at Irondale Middle School declined 17% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 517 to 430 students. The ratio was 17.2:1 in 2020-21 and 15.9:1 in 2024-25.
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Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
667,755
Census ACS
Median income
$66,388
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
181
97,401 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jefferson County
- ClayChalkville High SchoolHigh · 1,377 students
- McAdory High SchoolHigh · 1,259 students
- Hueytown High SchoolHigh · 1,200 students
- Shades Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,094 students
- Gardendale High SchoolHigh · 1,076 students
- Pinson Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,025 students
Other schools in Irondale
- Shades Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,094 students
- Irondale Community SchoolElementary · 435 students
Nearby schools
- Shades Valley High School0.2 mi · 1,094
- Grantswood Community School1.1 mi · 394
- Irondale Community School2.6 mi · 435
- Christian School2.9 mi · 574
- WE Putnam Middle SchoolMagnet3.1 mi · 184
- Ossie Ware Mitchell Middle School3.4 mi · 330
Frequently asked questions
About Irondale Middle SchoolHow many students attend Irondale Middle School?
Irondale Middle School enrolls approximately 430 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Irondale Middle School serve?
Irondale Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Irondale Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Irondale Middle School is approximately 15.9:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Irondale Middle School?
Student demographics at Irondale Middle School are roughly 9% White, 35% Hispanic, 53% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Irondale Middle School public or private?
Irondale Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Jefferson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.