White Plains Middle School

White Plains Middle School operates as a close-knit intermediate school in Anniston, Alabama, run under Calhoun County. Current enrollment sits at 387 students spanning grades 5 through 8. That puts it 24% below the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 508 students.

White Plains Middle School is one of 17 schools operated by Calhoun County, a district that educates 7,997 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, White Plains Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). Beyond that, the school records 12% Hispanic, 7% Black. By comparison, Calhoun County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, White Plains Middle School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 43% of students at White Plains Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Calhoun County's rate of about 58%.

With demographic context factored in, White Plains Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.4%, the actual is 52.4%, a residual of -0.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Calhoun County indicate median household income runs about $55,029, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Calhoun County's 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,686 students), White Plains Middle School is one campus in the mix.

White Plains Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, White Plains Middle School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.5%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at White Plains Middle School has fell 7%, going from 417 students in 2018 to 387 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 7% to 12% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.

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