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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Middle

Centre Middle School

Centre, Alabama

NCES ID
010063000276
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.

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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

457students

42880th nationally, tied with 143

Teachers

25.0FTE

53124th nationally, tied with 2,399

Students per teacher

18.3students

71914th nationally, tied with 516

Free or reduced-price lunch

73.5%percent

27736th nationally, tied with 81

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.

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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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Sand Rock High School773 students
  2. 2Centre Elementary School647 students
  3. 3Cedar Bluff High School607 students
  4. 4Spring Garden High School561 students
  5. 5Cherokee County High School465 students
  6. 6Centre Middle School457 students
  7. 7Gaylesville High School376 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Alabama median across 1,528 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−10.6%
  • Teachers−7.4%
  • Students per teacher+3.4%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+11.7%
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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.