Summary:
The Daleville City school district serves approximately 1,156 students across three schools—A M Windham Elementary School (PK-4), Daleville Middle School (5-8), and Daleville High School (9-12)—and currently ranks 114th out of 139 Alabama districts with a 1-star rating for all schools.
Among the three, A M Windham Elementary School stands out as the strongest performer, holding the district's best state percentile (24th) and its highest English proficiency rates—4th grade English reaches 56.19%, just 3.34 points below the state average. It also has the lowest chronic absenteeism at 13.8%. Daleville Middle School excels in 8th grade science (48.75% proficiency, only 5.37 points below state) and 5th grade English (51.32%), but struggles most in math, where 7th grade proficiency plummets to just 7.69%—a 59% drop from 5th grade. Daleville High School lags significantly, with 11th grade proficiency rates of only 11.84% in math, 15.49% in English, and 17.33% in science, all roughly 15-19 points below state averages.
Key concerns include a high school chronic absenteeism rate of 20.1%—67% above the state average—and a middle school student-teacher ratio of 25.1:1, the highest in the district. With 68-76% of students qualifying for free/reduced lunch, the district faces significant socioeconomic challenges. Despite spending $8,742-$10,331 per student, performance remains in the bottom quartile, and dramatic year-over-year swings (e.g., 8th grade science jumping 118%) suggest instability rather than genuine improvement. The clearest pattern is a pipeline problem: students enter with relatively strong early English skills, lose ground in middle school math, and arrive at high school multiple grade levels behind, making remediation an enormous challenge.
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