NicholsLawson Middle School

NicholsLawson Middle School operates as a mid-sized intermediate school in Sylacauga, Alabama, part of Sylacauga City. Current enrollment sits at 446 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

NicholsLawson Middle School is one of 4 schools operated by Sylacauga City, a district that enrolls 1,976 students overall.

On the student-mix side, NicholsLawson Middle School logs that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 41% Black, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

On the resource side, NicholsLawson Middle School shows 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), NicholsLawson Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.3%, the actual is 39.1%, a residual of -1.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Talladega County indicate median household income runs about $57,776, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Talladega County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,973 students), NicholsLawson Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Indian Valley Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around NicholsLawson Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NicholsLawson Middle School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 36.8%.

NicholsLawson Middle School operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. NicholsLawson Middle School's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 509 (now 446). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 59% to 48%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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