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Public school / Middle

Lowndes County Middle School

Fort Deposit, Alabama

NCES ID
010216001637
District
Lowndes County
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Lowndes County Middle School is a public middle school in Fort Deposit, Alabama, run by Lowndes County. It enrols 126 students — the 84994th 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

126students

84994th nationally, tied with 82

Teachers

8.0FTE

85947th nationally, tied with 1,326

Students per teacher

15.8students

54892nd nationally, tied with 904

Free or reduced-price lunch

98.4%percent

6118th nationally, tied with 93

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 Lowndes 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. 1Fort Deposit Elementary School194 students
  2. 2Calhoun High School192 students
  3. 3Central Elementary School185 students
  4. 4Central High School177 students
  5. 5Hayneville Middle School173 students
  6. 6Jacksonsteele Elementary School129 students
  7. 7Lowndes County Middle School126 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−75.3%
  • Teachers−70.4%
  • Students per teacher−10.7%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+49.5%
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Where this sits

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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.