West Morgan Middle School

West Morgan Middle School is one of the middle-of-the-pack junior highs in Trinity, Alabama, one of the schools within Morgan County, with 561 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 8.

Morgan County comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 7,619 students; West Morgan Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, West Morgan Middle School lists that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 40% Hispanic, 6% Black. By comparison, Morgan County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, West Morgan Middle School records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting West Morgan Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Morgan County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, West Morgan Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.5%; this one delivers 43.4%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Morgan County put the typical household earns roughly $68,845 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. West Morgan Middle School is one of 46 public schools in Morgan County (combined enrollment of about 20,204 students).

West Morgan High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Morgan Middle School. On composite proficiency, West Morgan Middle School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 36.5%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Morgan Middle School has expanded 30%, going from 432 students in 2018 to 561 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 32% to 40% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 in 2025.

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