Muscle Shoals Middle School

Muscle Shoals Middle School is a medium-sized middle-grades school. Its address is in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Students in grades 6 through 8 attend the school, which enrolls 642 students. The average among middle schools in Alabama is roughly 508 students; this school is 26% bigger than that.

Muscle Shoals Middle School is one school in a 6-school district, Muscle Shoals City, which enrolls 2,979 students.

White students account for 68% of enrollment at Muscle Shoals Middle School. Other groups make up 15% Black, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Colbert County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school's share is lower. The chance that two students picked at random at Muscle Shoals Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 50%.

Teachers at the school number 39 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 16.5:1. Among middle schools in Alabama, the typical ratio is 17.9:1. The school's lunch program data list 33% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. It compares with 50% for public schools in Colbert County.

allk12 grades Muscle Shoals Middle School an A. The grade compares the school only with Alabama public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.

Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Muscle Shoals Middle School would score about 59.8%. It scores 67.4%, 7.5 points above that figure.

Across Colbert County, median household income is about $60,628, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 22% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 14%. The public schools of Colbert County number 25 and enroll about 8,178.

The next-closest public school is McBride Elementary School, less than a tenth of a mile away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Muscle Shoals Middle School ranks 2nd of 5 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 67.4% against a local average of 46.6%.

Locale data from NCES put Muscle Shoals Middle School inside a principal city with a population under 100,000 (City: Small).

Muscle Shoals Middle School had 683 students in 2020-21 and 642 in 2024-25, a 6% decrease. Its ratio of students to teachers was 18.5:1 in 2020-21, and 16.5:1 in 2024-25.

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