Meridianville Middle School

Meridianville Middle School operates as a big junior high in Hazel Green, Alabama, one of the schools within Madison County. Current enrollment sits at 1,100 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 117% above the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 508 students.

Across the 28 schools in Madison County (20,691 students total), Meridianville Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Meridianville Middle School logs that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 31% Black, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Native American. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the resource side, On paper, Meridianville Middle School has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.6:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Meridianville Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.1%, the actual is 46.1%, a residual of -5.0 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Madison County put the typical household earns roughly $86,499 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Madison County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), of which Meridianville Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Moores Mill Intermediate School, around 2.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Meridianville Middle School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Meridianville Middle School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 37.3%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Meridianville Middle School has edged up 76%, going from 625 students in 2018 to 1,100 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 70% to 47% across the same window.

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