Smiths Station Junior High School

Smiths Station Junior High School is a middle-grades school of heavily attended scale in Smiths Station, Alabama, part of Lee County, caters to 910 students in grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 508 students each, so Smiths Station Junior High School sits 79% above that benchmark.

Across the 13 schools in Lee County (9,026 students total), Smiths Station Junior High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Smiths Station Junior High School shows that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Black, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Lee County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Roughly 44% of students at Smiths Station Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Smiths Station Junior High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.8%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Lee County indicate median household earnings sit near $65,824, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Lee County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,812 students), Smiths Station Junior High School is one campus in the mix.

South Smiths Station Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Smiths Station Junior High School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Smiths Station Junior High School's enrollment has contracted 4% since 2018, when it stood at 948 (now 910). Class-load math has tightened: from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.

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