Middle · Alabama
Phillips Preparatory Middle School
Free meals for allPhillips Preparatory Middle School, a public middle school in Mobile, Alabama: grades 6–8, 453 students, 13.3 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Mobile 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
- 453
- Teachers (FTE)
- 34.0
- Students per teacher
- 13.3
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 97% of middle schools in Alabama
Median 18.0 · 261 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 63% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Larger than 51% of middle schools in Alabama
Median 449 · 263 schools compared
Smaller than 58% 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%92%proficient
+0.7 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 99% of middle schools in Alabama
Median 56% · 263 middle schools compared
435 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · ACAP; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
Alabama: 35%51%proficient
+6.8 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 89% of middle schools in Alabama
Median 24% · 263 middle schools compared
435 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
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize city
- Run by
- Mobile County
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Mobile County.
Location
- Address
- 3255 Old Shell Rd, Mobile, AL 36607
- Phone
- (251)221-2286
- City or town
- Mobile
- County
- Mobile 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Acceleration Preparatory AcademyCharterFree meals for all | 6–8 | 322 | — | 25% | 2.0% |
Booker T Washington Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 270 | 14.2 | 31% | 6.4% |
CL Scarborough Model Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 641 | 19.4 | 39% | 7.4% |
Denton Magnet School of TechnologyFree meals for all | 6–8 | 334 | 20.9 | 85% | 52% |
ClarkShaw Magnet SchoolFree meals for all | 6–9 | 582 | 18.8 | 84% | 49% |
Dunbar Creative Performing ArtsFree meals for all | 6–8 | 338 | 15.4 | 73% | 18% |
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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