Southern Alamance Middle

Southern Alamance Middle operates as an average-sized middle-grades school in Graham, North Carolina, part of Alamance-Burlington Schools. Current enrollment sits at 822 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 605 students each, so Southern Alamance Middle sits 36% above that benchmark.

Across the 37 schools in Alamance-Burlington Schools (22,661 students total), Southern Alamance Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Southern Alamance Middle logs that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 26% Hispanic, 13% Black, 6% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 58% of students at Southern Alamance Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Alamance County runs at roughly 80%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Southern Alamance Middle falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 61.1%; this one comes in at 41.7%, -19.4 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, census data for Alamance County shows median household earnings sit near $65,651, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Alamance County's 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,737 students), Southern Alamance Middle is one campus in the mix.

Southern Alamance High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Southern Alamance Middle comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Southern Alamance Middle has rose 11%, going from 741 students in 2018 to 822 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 80% to 54%.

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