Muscle Shoals Middle School

Muscle Shoals Middle School, a mid-sized intermediate school in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, one of the schools within Muscle Shoals City, serves 642 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 508 students each, so Muscle Shoals Middle School sits 26% larger than that benchmark.

Muscle Shoals Middle School is one of 6 schools operated by Muscle Shoals City, a district that educates 2,979 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Muscle Shoals Middle School shows that White students make up the majority at 68%. Beyond that, the school records 15% Black, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Colbert County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Muscle Shoals Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Colbert County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Muscle Shoals Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.8%, the actual is 67.4%, a residual of +7.5 points.

Across the wider county, Colbert County reports that median household earnings sit near $60,628, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Colbert County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,178 students), Muscle Shoals Middle School is one campus in the mix.

McBride Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Muscle Shoals Middle School at 1st of 5; the average score across the group is 34.3%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Muscle Shoals Middle School's enrollment has ticked down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 675 (now 642). The White share of enrollment fell from 72% to 68% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.