Summary:
In zip code 36460, there is just one middle school, Monroeville Middle School, which serves grades 5 through 8 and enrolls 264 students in the Monroe County area of Alabama.
Monroeville Middle School is part of the Monroe County district, which ranks in the bottom quarter of Alabama districts. The school's strongest subject is English Language Arts, with 5th graders reaching 50.88% proficiency in 2025-2026, the closest the school comes to the state average. Mathematics is the most critical concern, with proficiency rates collapsing in upper grades—only 5.71% of 7th graders and 5.45% of 8th graders are proficient in math, compared to state averages around 25%. This represents a gap of nearly 20 percentage points and suggests foundational skills are not being built in earlier grades. There is a notable "6th grade anomaly" where math proficiency jumps to 29.31%, dramatically higher than both 5th (14.04%) and 7th (5.71%) grades, which may indicate a particularly effective teacher or curriculum in that grade.
On a positive note, 8th-grade science proficiency improved significantly from 15.71% to 37.04% in one year, suggesting a targeted intervention is working. The school also has a favorable student-teacher ratio of 13.8 to 1, which supports smaller class sizes. However, 80.68% of students are economically disadvantaged, and chronic absenteeism is 13.5%, slightly above the state average. Per-student spending is $9,118. While the school's state ranking has improved slightly over three years (from 379th to 350th), the extreme math deficits in 7th and 8th grades remain the most urgent issue. Parents should know that while the school shows pockets of success in English and science, the math crisis in upper grades requires immediate attention and likely indicates a need for curriculum or instructional changes.
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