Sheffield Junior High School

As a minimally staffed middle school in Sheffield, Alabama, Sheffield Junior High School caters to 127 students from grades 7 through 8, one of the schools within Sheffield City. Enrollment runs roughly 75% below the state mean of about 508.

Within Sheffield City, which oversees 4 schools and 1,029 students, Sheffield Junior High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Sheffield Junior High School reports that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 33% Black, 12% multiracial, 9% Hispanic. By comparison, Colbert County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Sheffield Junior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Colbert County's rate of about 50%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sheffield Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.6%, the actual is 30.8%, a residual of -2.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Colbert County) reports that median household earnings sit near $60,628, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Colbert County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,178 students), Sheffield Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Sheffield High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sheffield Junior High School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.6%.

Sheffield Junior High School operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Sheffield Junior High School's enrollment has contracted 7% since 2018, when it stood at 136 (now 127). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 54% to 45%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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