Wilson Hall Middle School

Located at 401 Carter Drive, in Grove Hill, Alabama, Wilson Hall Middle School is a micro-enrollment intermediate school that instructs 201 students (grades 5 through 8), run under Clarke County. Enrollment runs roughly 60% below the state mean of about 508.

Wilson Hall Middle School is one of 7 schools operated by Clarke County, a district that teaches 2,130 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Wilson Hall Middle School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 34% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Clarke County as a whole is about 45% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Wilson Hall Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Wilson Hall Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.6%, the actual is 23.4%, a residual of -4.2 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Clarke County indicate the typical household earns roughly $49,249 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Clarke County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,143 students), Wilson Hall Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Clarke County High School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Wilson Hall Middle School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 37.4%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Wilson Hall Middle School's enrollment has edged down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 248 (now 201). The Black share of enrollment shrank from 67% to 63% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 in 2025.

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