Middle · Alabama
Bessemer City Middle School
Free meals for allBessemer City Middle School, a public middle school in Bessemer, Alabama: grades 6–8, 616 students, 20.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Bessemer City.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 616
- Teachers (FTE)
- 30.0
- Students per teacher
- 20.5
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
More students per teacher than 87% of middle schools in Alabama
Median 18.0 · 261 schools compared
More students per teacher than 89% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Larger than 71% of middle schools in Alabama
Median 449 · 263 schools compared
Larger than 60% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- Bessemer City
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Bessemer City.
Location
- Address
- 100 High School Drive, Bessemer, AL 35020
- Phone
- (205)432-3601
- City or town
- Bessemer
- County
- Jefferson County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4–8 | 211 | — | |
McAdory Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 841 | 17.3 |
Hueytown Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 755 | 16.1 |
Rutledge SchoolFree meals for all | 5–8 | 288 | 19.9 |
| 6–8 | 1,192 | 15.3 | |
Jefferson County International Baccalaureate SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 345 | 17.7 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
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