Millbrook Middle School

Millbrook Middle School is an intermediate school of sprawling scale in Millbrook, Alabama, run under Elmore County, serveing 1,071 students in grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 508 students each, so Millbrook Middle School sits 111% larger than that benchmark.

Elmore County runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 11,741 students. Millbrook Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Millbrook Middle School shows that 43% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 40% White, 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Elmore County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Millbrook Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.9%.

In the broader community, Elmore County reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,243 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Millbrook Middle School is one of 26 public schools in Elmore County (combined enrollment of about 13,867 students).

The closest other public school is Stanhope Elmore High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Millbrook Middle School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.7%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Millbrook Middle School has ticked down 9%, going from 1,175 students in 2018 to 1,071 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 49% to 40% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 today.

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