Midland City Elementary School

Located at 48 Second Street, in Midland City, Alabama, Midland City Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary-level community that caters to 478 students (grades pre-K through 4), one of the schools within Dale County.

Within Dale County, which oversees 7 schools and 3,376 students, Midland City Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Midland City Elementary School logs that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 32% Black, 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Dale County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Midland City Elementary School reports 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Roughly 70% of students at Midland City Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Midland City Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 33.4%; Midland City Elementary School posts 53.5%, +20.1 points above that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Dale County) reports that median household income runs about $54,963, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Midland City Elementary School is one of 18 public schools in Dale County (combined enrollment of about 6,437 students).

Dale County High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Midland City Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Midland City Elementary School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 36.9%.

Midland City Elementary School operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Midland City Elementary School's enrollment has increased 16% since 2018, when it stood at 412 (now 478). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.