Summary:
The Legacy Prep district contains just one middle school, Legacy Prep Intermediate, which serves grades 4 through 7 and enrolls 219 students in the Birmingham, AL area.
Legacy Prep Intermediate faces significant academic challenges, particularly in mathematics. Math proficiency rates are critically low, falling from 16% in 4th grade to just 1.79% in 7th grade, with 8th-grade math at 0%. This represents a nearly 90% decline in proficiency as students advance, suggesting compounding learning gaps. English/Language Arts performance is comparatively stronger, with 5th grade achieving 47.17% proficiency, though still well below state averages. Science scores also lag significantly, with 8th-grade proficiency at 22.22% compared to the state's 54.12%. The school serves a predominantly economically disadvantaged population, with 84.47% of students eligible for free/reduced lunch, and has a chronic absenteeism rate of 15.3%—above the state average of 12%. The student-teacher ratio stands at 19.9:1.
The school received a 1-star rating and ranked 385 out of 443 Alabama schools (13th percentile) for the 2025-2026 school year. The Legacy Prep district itself ranks in the bottom 9% of Alabama districts (127 of 139). An unusual data point is the presence of 8th-grade test scores despite the school serving grades 4-7, likely representing a very small cohort. The school's strongest subject-grade combination is 5th-grade ELA at 47.17% proficiency, which could serve as a model for instructional strategies. Overall, the data indicates urgent need for targeted interventions in STEM subjects and for upper-grade students, though the relative strength in ELA provides a foundation to build upon.
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