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Saraland Middle SchoolAdams Campus
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Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 51% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in Alabama's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Saraland Middle SchoolAdams Campus
Saraland Middle SchoolAdams Campus is one of the expansive middle-grades schools in Saraland, Alabama, part of Saraland City, with 789 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 508 students per school, that is 55% above typical.
Saraland City runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 3,514 students. Saraland Middle SchoolAdams Campus is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Saraland Middle SchoolAdams Campus logs that 70% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 16% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 56% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Saraland Middle SchoolAdams Campus has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Saraland Middle SchoolAdams Campus higher than the state norm the norm. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Mobile County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Saraland Middle SchoolAdams Campus sits in the top 10% of Alabama schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 51.4%; actual is 74.1%, +22.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Mobile County indicate median household earnings sit near $58,880, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Saraland Middle SchoolAdams Campus is one of 107 public schools in Mobile County (combined enrollment of about 59,070 students).
Nearest neighbor: Robert E Lee Elementary, around 1.1 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Saraland Middle SchoolAdams Campus ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.2%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Saraland Middle SchoolAdams Campus has climbed 8%, going from 729 students in 2018 to 789 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 78% to 70% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 in 2025.
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- Saraland High SchoolHigh · 1,134 students
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