Summary:
The MAEF Public Charter Schools district contains one middle school, Acceleration Preparatory Academy, serving grades 6-8 with 322 students in Mobile, Alabama, a high-poverty urban area where 83.54% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch.
Acceleration Preparatory Academy faces significant academic challenges, ranking 418th out of 443 Alabama middle schools (6th percentile) with a 0-star rating. The most critical concern is mathematics proficiency, which is alarmingly low across all grades: only 4.95% of 6th graders, 5.56% of 7th graders, and a staggering 0.76% of 8th graders are proficient in math, compared to state averages of 35.22%, 24.46%, and 26.36% respectively. English Language Arts performance is comparatively stronger, with proficiency rates of 17.82% (6th), 28.70% (7th), and 28.79% (8th), though still well below state averages of roughly 56-58%. The 8th grade English proficiency rate is nearly 38 times higher than the 8th grade math rate, highlighting a dramatic subject-area disparity.
There are some encouraging signs. Science proficiency in 8th grade more than doubled from 12.12% to 23.81% year-over-year, an 11.69 percentage point gain that represents the school's most substantial improvement. Math also showed progress in 6th and 7th grades, with gains of 1.03 and 4.57 points respectively, though 8th grade math dipped slightly. Chronic absenteeism is a notable positive: at 5.7%, it is less than half the state average of 12.0%, indicating strong student attendance and engagement. However, 6th grade English proficiency declined from 20.79% to 17.82%, which is concerning as it represents students' transition into middle school. The school's ranking improved from the 4th to 6th percentile over the past year, suggesting a modest upward trajectory. Given that this is the district's only middle school, all district metrics directly reflect this school's performance, concentrating both the challenges and opportunities for improvement.
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