Margaret Allen Middle
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TCAP 2024-25 . % On Track or MasteredWhat this means: On the TCAP, Tennessee's statewide test, about 11 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Tennessee schools, those numbers are about 41 and 39. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2022, while math scores are down about 8 points.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Margaret Allen Middle
Margaret Allen Middle is one of the compact 6-8 campuss in Nashville, Tennessee, run under Davidson County, with 306 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 45% below the typical public school in Tennessee, which averages around 554 students.
Margaret Allen Middle is one of 160 schools operated by Davidson County, a district that hosts 81,532 students overall.
On demographics, Margaret Allen Middle logs that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 27% Black, 11% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 14% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Davidson County shows median household earnings sit near $77,853, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Davidson County runs 177 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,005 students), of which Margaret Allen Middle is one.
Nearest neighbor: Rocketship United, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
The school occupies an urban site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Margaret Allen Middle has edged down 31%, going from 444 students in 2018 to 306 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 30% to 58% over that span.
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