Midfield Elementary School

Set in Midfield, Alabama, Midfield Elementary School is a small primary school, part of Midfield City. It hosts 377 students across grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 21% leaner than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 480 students.

Midfield City comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 992 students; Midfield Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Midfield Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (85%); the rest is composed of 13% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Midfield Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Midfield Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 20.0%.

In the area at large, Jefferson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,388 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Jefferson County's 181 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students), Midfield Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Midfield High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Midfield Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Midfield Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 43.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Midfield Elementary School has contracted 6%, going from 400 students in 2018 to 377 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 5% to 13% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 in 2025.

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