WE Putnam Middle SchoolMagnet

WE Putnam Middle SchoolMagnet is an one-room-style middle-grades school in Birmingham, Alabama, one of the schools within Birmingham City. The school educates 184 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 64% leaner than the state mean of about 508.

Across the 43 schools in Birmingham City (20,954 students total), WE Putnam Middle SchoolMagnet accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, WE Putnam Middle SchoolMagnet reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (92%); the rest comes out to 4% Hispanic, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 42% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Jefferson County's rate of about 52%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WE Putnam Middle SchoolMagnet tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 12.6%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,388 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jefferson County runs 181 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students), of which WE Putnam Middle SchoolMagnet is one.

Irondale Community School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WE Putnam Middle SchoolMagnet at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 38.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WE Putnam Middle SchoolMagnet has ticked down 43%, going from 324 students in 2018 to 184 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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