Jasper Junior High School

Set in Jasper, Alabama, Jasper Junior High School is a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school, run under Jasper City. It serves 467 students across grades 7 through 8.

Jasper Junior High School is one of 5 schools operated by Jasper City, a district that caters to 2,950 students overall.

On demographics, Jasper Junior High School shows that White students make up the majority at 66%; the rest comes out to 19% Hispanic, 13% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 50% of students at Jasper Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jasper Junior High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.6%.

Around the school, Walker County reports that median household earnings sit near $56,509, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Jasper Junior High School is one of 24 public schools in Walker County (combined enrollment of about 10,041 students).

Jasper High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jasper Junior High School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.8%.

Jasper Junior High School operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Jasper Junior High School's enrollment has increased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 428 (now 467). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 8% to 19%. Class-load math has fell: from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

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