Middle · Alabama
Dothan Preparatory Academy
Free meals for allDothan Preparatory Academy, a public middle school in Dothan, Alabama: grades 7–8, 1,034 students, 18.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Dothan 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
- 1,034
- Teachers (FTE)
- 56.0
- Students per teacher
- 18.5
- Grades
- 7–8
- Middle
More students per teacher than 58% of middle schools in Alabama
Median 18.0 · 261 schools compared
More students per teacher than 80% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Larger than 95% of middle schools in Alabama
Median 449 · 263 schools compared
Larger than 92% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 7–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Small city
- Run by
- Dothan City
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Dothan City.
Location
- Address
- 1236 South Oates Street, Dothan, AL 36031
- Phone
- (334)794-1400
- City or town
- Dothan
- County
- Houston 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Dothan 6th Grade CenterFree meals for all | 6 | 449 | 19.5 |
Rehobeth Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | 4–6 | 590 | 22.7 |
Rehobeth Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 7–8 | 408 | 17.7 |
Ashford Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 316 | 18.6 |
Headland Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–9 | 580 | 18.4 |
South Dale Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 5–8 | 412 | 22.2 |
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).
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