W J Carroll Intermediate School

W J Carroll Intermediate School is one of the cozy intermediate schools in Daphne, Alabama, overseen by Baldwin County, with 414 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 6.

W J Carroll Intermediate School is one of 42 schools operated by Baldwin County, a district that teaches 31,965 students overall.

On demographics, W J Carroll Intermediate School shows that 66% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 15% Black, 11% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Baldwin County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting W J Carroll Intermediate School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 43% of students at W J Carroll Intermediate School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, W J Carroll Intermediate School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.0%.

Across the wider county, census data for Baldwin County shows median household earnings sit near $78,775, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. W J Carroll Intermediate School is one of 51 public schools in Baldwin County (combined enrollment of about 35,975 students).

Baldwin County Virtual School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around W J Carroll Intermediate School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts W J Carroll Intermediate School at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 38.3%.

W J Carroll Intermediate School operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at W J Carroll Intermediate School has contracted 9%, going from 455 students in 2018 to 414 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 20% to 15% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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