Middle Schools in Butler County

Butler County, Alabama is home to just one middle school, Greenville Middle School, which serves grades 5 through 8 and enrolls 513 students within the Butler County district.

For parents, the most important takeaway is that Greenville Middle School faces significant academic challenges, but it is showing signs of improvement. The school has earned just one star in each of the last three years and consistently ranks in the bottom quarter of Alabama middle schools. Proficiency rates in every subject and grade level trail state averages by significant margins. The most concerning area is 7th grade math, where only 4% of students are proficient—a fraction of the state average of 24%. Science is also a major weakness, with 8th grade proficiency at 25% versus 54% statewide. Compounding these issues, the school has a chronic absenteeism rate of 28.6%, more than double the state average, and 76.8% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, indicating a high-poverty population.

Despite these struggles, there is positive momentum. From the 2024-2025 to 2025-2026 school year, 5th grade math proficiency more than doubled from 9.6% to 21.2%, and 5th grade English jumped by 11 points to 50.9%. Sixth and 8th grade also posted strong gains in both subjects. However, 7th grade showed virtually no improvement, suggesting a specific instructional or engagement issue at that level. English proficiency (35-51%) is consistently much higher than math (4-21%), indicating math is the area needing the most targeted intervention. While the district itself performs below state averages, Greenville Middle School still trails its own district in nearly every metric, meaning school-level strategies could make a meaningful difference.