Middle · Alabama
Oak Mountain Middle School
Oak Mountain Middle School, a public middle school in Birmingham, Alabama: grades 6–8, 1,168 students, 18.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Shelby County.
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
- 1,168
- Teachers (FTE)
- 63.0
- Students per teacher
- 18.5
- Grades
- 6–8
- 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 98% of middle schools in Alabama
Median 449 · 263 schools compared
Larger than 96% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on Alabama's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
Alabama: 60%78%proficient
+7.9 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 89% of middle schools in Alabama
Median 56% · 263 middle schools compared
1,148 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · ACAP; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
Alabama: 35%49%proficient
+7.5 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 85% of middle schools in Alabama
Median 24% · 263 middle schools compared
1,159 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · ACAP; proficient means Levels 3-4
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- Shelby County
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Shelby County.
Location
- Address
- 5650 Cahaba Valley Rd, Birmingham, AL 35242
- Phone
- (205)682-5210
- City or town
- Indian Springs Village
- County
- Shelby 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 | Reading | Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6–12 | 1,058 | 14.6 | 83% | 58% | |
| 6–8 | 831 | 17.9 | 74% | 47% | |
STAR Program MiddleAlternative | 6–8 | — | — | — | — |
| 6–8 | 1,131 | 15.1 | 92% | 71% | |
| 6–8 | 835 | 18.6 | 62% | 25% | |
| 6–8 | 860 | 13.9 | 76% | 51% |
Reading and Math: share of tested students proficient or above on the state's own tests (grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year). Compare only within a state.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
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).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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