Piedmont Middle School

Piedmont Middle School is an intermediate school of cozy scale in Piedmont, Alabama, run under Piedmont City, enrolling 223 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 56% smaller than the state mean of about 508.

Piedmont Middle School is one of 3 schools operated by Piedmont City, a district that teaches 1,080 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Piedmont Middle School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder reads as 8% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Calhoun County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Piedmont Middle School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 41.0%; this one delivers 62.4%, a residual of +21.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Calhoun County put median household income runs about $55,029, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Calhoun County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,686 students), of which Piedmont Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Piedmont Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Piedmont Middle School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 34.8%.

Piedmont Middle School operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Piedmont Middle School's enrollment has shrank 22% since 2018, when it stood at 286 (now 223). The White share of enrollment contracted from 89% to 84% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.