Public school / Middle
Centre Middle School
Centre, Alabama
- NCES ID
- 010063000276
- District
- Cherokee County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Centre Middle School is a public middle school in Centre, Alabama, run by Cherokee County. It enrols 457 students — the 42880th largest of 1,528 public schools in Alabama.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
457
Teachers
25.0
Students per teacher
18.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
73.5%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Cherokee County
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Sand Rock High School773 students
- 2Centre Elementary School647 students
- 3Cedar Bluff High School607 students
- 4Spring Garden High School561 students
- 5Cherokee County High School465 students
- 6Centre Middle School457 students
- 7Gaylesville High School376 students
- Enrollment−10.6%
- Teachers−7.4%
- Students per teacher+3.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+11.7%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory