Public school / Middle
South Dale Middle School
Pinckard, Alabama
- NCES ID
- 010105000393
- District
- Dale County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
South Dale Middle School is a public middle school in Pinckard, Alabama, run by Dale County. It enrols 426 students — the 47227th 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
426
Teachers
23.0
Students per teacher
18.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
78.4%
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 Dale 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.
- 1Ariton School863 students
- 2Gw Long Elementary School464 students
- 3Midland City Elementary School453 students
- 4South Dale Middle School426 students
- 5Dale County High School417 students
- 6George W Long High School368 students
- 7Newton Elementary School279 students
- Enrollment−16.6%
- Teachers−14.8%
- Students per teacher+4.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+19.1%
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