Journey Middle School

Journey Middle School operates as a large junior high in Madison, Alabama, overseen by Madison City. Current enrollment sits at 903 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 78% larger than the state mean of about 508.

Madison City comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 13,046 students; Journey Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Journey Middle School lists that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 23% Black, 10% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Madison County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Journey Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 27% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Madison County (around 41%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Journey Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.5%; this one delivers 59.5%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Madison County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,499 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Madison County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), of which Journey Middle School is one.

Madison Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Journey Middle School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.6%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

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