PollardMcCall Junior High School

PollardMcCall Junior High School is a primary school of compact scale in Brewton, Alabama, overseen by Escambia County, instructing 200 students in grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 480 students per school, that is 58% leaner than typical.

Escambia County comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 4,072 students; PollardMcCall Junior High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, PollardMcCall Junior High School lists that nearly all students (81%) are White. The remainder comes out to 8% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Native American, 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 61% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, PollardMcCall Junior High School has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Escambia County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, PollardMcCall Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.1%, the actual is 51.6%, a residual of +6.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Escambia County reports that median household earnings sit near $48,225, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Escambia County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,240 students), PollardMcCall Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: W S Neal Middle School, around 6.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PollardMcCall Junior High School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 37.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PollardMcCall Junior High School has contracted 12%, going from 228 students in 2018 to 200 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 90% to 81% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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