Summary:
Andalusia City is home to a single middle school, Andalusia Junior High, which serves grades 7 and 8 with 270 students in the Andalusia City district, a top-quartile system in Alabama.
For parents, the most important takeaway is that Andalusia Junior High is a strong school overall, but its performance is highly uneven between grade levels. In 7th grade, students are thriving: math proficiency is 53.72% (more than double the state’s 24.46%), and English proficiency is 68.03% (vs. 55.25% statewide). However, 8th grade tells a different story. Math proficiency drops to just 30.51% (barely above the state’s 26.36%), and English falls to 54.24%—the only subject where the school trails the state average (58.53%). Science in 8th grade is essentially average at 54.24%. This creates a 23-point gap between 7th and 8th grade math, suggesting a difficult transition or a difference in instruction between the grades.
Year-over-year, the school shows significant volatility. 7th grade math improved by nearly 15 points, while 8th grade math dropped by 11.6 points and 8th grade science fell by 13.7 points. The school’s state ranking slipped from the 88th percentile (2024-2025) to the 76th percentile (2025-2026), likely driven by the weaker 8th grade cohort. Chronic absenteeism is 9.0%, better than the state’s 12.0% but above the district’s 7.6%. With 56.3% of students on free/reduced lunch, the school achieves impressive results in 7th grade despite economic challenges, making the 8th grade decline particularly puzzling. The student-teacher ratio is 15:1, and per-student spending is $8,120 (though this figure is from 2018-2019). Overall, this is a school with clear strengths in early middle school but a pressing need to address 8th grade performance.
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