Bay Minette Middle School

Bay Minette Middle School serves 432 students in grades 7 and 8 in Bay Minette, Alabama, as part of the Baldwin County school district. The school has shown promising improvement recently, jumping from the 43rd to the 56th percentile statewide and earning a 3-star rating for the 2025-2026 school year.

The school's standout strength is its exceptional support for Special Education students, who ranked in the 80th percentile statewide—a remarkable achievement that outperforms most schools in this area. Bay Minette also demonstrated broad-based improvement across nearly all student groups this year, including gains for female, male, African American, White, and low-income students. However, a persistent gender gap remains: female students rank in the 67th percentile while male students rank in only the 43rd percentile. The school also faces challenges with chronic absenteeism at 15.2%, which is higher than both the district (11.2%) and state (12.0%) averages. Academically, 8th-grade science is a clear strength at 60% proficiency, nearly matching the district average, but 7th-grade math proficiency lags significantly at just 19.5% compared to the district's 34.6%.

Compared to nearby schools, Bay Minette sits in a middle tier. It significantly outperforms Mobile County Training Middle School (6th percentile) and Chickasaw Middle School (7th percentile), but trails its higher-performing in-district peers like Daphne Middle School (88th percentile) and Spanish Fort Middle School (95th percentile). Notably, Bay Minette spends more per student ($11,078) and has a lower student-teacher ratio than those higher-performing peers, indicating the school is well-resourced. The challenge lies in effectively deploying those resources to overcome the hurdles of higher poverty rates and chronic absenteeism while sustaining its recent upward trajectory.