Rock Mills Junior High School

Rock Mills Junior High School is one of the very small primary schools in Roanoke, Alabama, run under Randolph County, with 177 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 63% smaller than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 480 students.

Randolph County comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,089 students; Rock Mills Junior High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rock Mills Junior High School logs that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 4% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 67% of students at Rock Mills Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Rock Mills Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.5%, the actual is 39.9%, a residual of +4.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for Randolph County shows the typical household earns roughly $52,338 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Randolph County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,444 students), Rock Mills Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Handley Middle School, roughly 3.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Rock Mills Junior High School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 42.9%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 10%: 161 students in 2018 compared to 177 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.