Phillips Preparatory Middle School

Phillips Preparatory Middle School is one of the moderately sized middle-grades schools in Mobile, Alabama, one of the schools within Mobile County, with 453 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Across the 85 schools in Mobile County (49,946 students total), Phillips Preparatory Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Phillips Preparatory Middle School lists that the largest single group is Black at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 34% White, 8% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Mobile County as a whole is about 36% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Mobile County (around 67%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Phillips Preparatory Middle School ranks in the top 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 52.5%; Phillips Preparatory Middle School posts 74.4%, +21.9 points above that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Mobile County indicate the typical household earns roughly $58,880 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Phillips Preparatory Middle School is one of 107 public schools in Mobile County (combined enrollment of about 59,070 students).

The closest other public school is Old Shell Road Magnet School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Phillips Preparatory Middle School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.7%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Phillips Preparatory Middle School has contracted 42%, going from 783 students in 2018 to 453 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 42% to 34% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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