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Marbury Middle School
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Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Marbury Middle School
As a compact intermediate school in Marbury, Alabama, Marbury Middle School serves 422 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Autauga County.
Marbury Middle School is one of 13 schools operated by Autauga County, a district that serves 8,888 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Marbury Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%); the rest reads as 14% Black, 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.
In terms of school funding signals, Marbury Middle School shows 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Marbury Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.0%.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Autauga County shows median household income runs about $72,481, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Autauga County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,888 students), Marbury Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Verbena High School, around 3.9 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Marbury Middle School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 34.3%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Five-year trend. Marbury Middle School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 429 (now 422). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.
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