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Enrollment
449
Middle
DISTRICT 551 · STATE 508
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PIKE ROAD CITY·NCES 010019502498
Pike Road Jr High School
696 Georgia Washington Road, Pike Road, AL 36064 · (334) 420-5340 · Montgomery County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL449 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 60% of Alabama public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Alabama public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.6:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
103 students
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 58%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 225 | 50% |
| Grade 8 | 224 | 50% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Pike Road Jr High School→Pike Road High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Pike Road City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
75.6%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
40.6%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
Source: ACAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.3%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Alabama's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Pike Road Jr High School
Pike Road Jr High School's state test result (60.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pike Road Jr High School this school | 449 | 22.9% | 60.5% |
| Pike Road Intermediate School Pike Road | 652 | 25.2% | 63.5% |
| Barton Academy For Advanced World Studies Mobile | 311 | 20.6% | 82.9% |
| Challenger Middle School Huntsville | 425 | 35.3% | 57.6% |
| Muscle Shoals Middle School Muscle Shoals | 642 | 33.2% | 67.4% |
| Discovery Middle School Madison | 1,054 | 26.4% | 63.6% |
Matched among Alabama middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Pike Road Jr High School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.5% | #45 of 260 | #3 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.6% | #60 of 260 | #3 of 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.6% | #42 of 260 | #3 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 449 | #132 of 265 | #11 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #78 of 244 | #3 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.6% | #44 of 246 | #2 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.9% | #255 of 264 | #11 of 11 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
449
-138 (-24%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 27.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 449 | 26.7 | 16.8:1 | 23% (103) |
| 2023-24 | 429 | 24 | 17.9:1 | 28% (122) |
| 2022-23 | 604 | 32.5 | 18.6:1 | 25% (150) |
| 2020-21 | 587 | 21 | 27.9:1 | 25% (144) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pike Road Jr High School.
About Pike Road Jr High School
Pike Road Jr High School is a mid-sized middle school in Alabama, with an address in Pike Road. It teaches 449 students in grades 7 through 8.
Pike Road City has 4 schools; together they serve 2,822 students.
More than half of the students at Pike Road Jr High School are White (51%). The rest of enrollment is 31% Black, 9% Hispanic, 5% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Montgomery County's population at about 31%. The diversity index for Pike Road Jr High School is 63%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its ratio of 16.8:1 is based on 26.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. Middle schools in Alabama average 17.9:1, 1.1 more students per teacher than here. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 23%. Public schools in Montgomery County average 67%.
Pike Road Jr High School holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 60% of Alabama public middle schools.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 67.3% at Pike Road Jr High School; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 60.5%.
American Community Survey estimates for Montgomery County show that median household income comes to about $59,386, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 16%. The county's public schools total 60, with about 31,131 students.
Pike Road High School is the nearest public school to Pike Road Jr High School, less than a tenth of a mile away. Counting only straight-line distance, 7 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Pike Road Jr High School is ahead of the 40.4% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 9.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 449, from 587 in 2020-21. The ratio of students to teachers went from 27.9:1 to 16.8:1 over the same years.
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Montgomery County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
226,718
Census ACS
Median income
$59,386
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
60
31,131 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pike Road City
- Pike Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 888 students
- Pike Road High SchoolHigh · 833 students
- Pike Road Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 652 students
Other schools in Pike Road
- Pike Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 888 students
- Pike Road High SchoolHigh · 833 students
- Pike Road Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 652 students
Nearby schools
- Pike Road High School0.0 mi · 833
- Carr Middle School3.5 mi · 774
- Blount Elementary School3.5 mi · 359
- Halcyon Elementary School3.5 mi · 694
- Wilson Elementary School4.4 mi · 376
- Pike Road Elementary School4.5 mi · 888
Frequently asked questions
About Pike Road Jr High SchoolHow many students attend Pike Road Jr High School?
Pike Road Jr High School enrolls approximately 449 students in grades 07-08.
Is Pike Road Jr High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Pike Road Jr High School is a middle school covering grades 07-08.
How many students per teacher at Pike Road Jr High School?
Approximately 16.8:1 students per teacher at Pike Road Jr High School.
What is the student diversity at Pike Road Jr High School?
Student demographics at Pike Road Jr High School are roughly 51% White, 9% Hispanic, 31% Black, 5% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Pike Road Jr High School public or private?
Pike Road Jr High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Pike Road City.
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