Morris Middle School

Morris Middle School is a close-knit middle-grades school in Huntsville, Alabama, part of Huntsville City. The school teaches 397 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 508 students per school, that is 22% leaner than typical.

Huntsville City runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 24,222 students. Morris Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Morris Middle School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 34% Black, 10% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 7% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Madison County's rate of about 41%.

After controlling for student poverty, Morris Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.4%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Madison County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,499 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Madison County's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), Morris Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Morris Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Morris Middle School at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 39.0%.

Morris Middle School operates from an urban location.

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