📍 300 Ave A SE, Lafayette, Chambers County, 36862
John P Powell Middle School is a State/Public serving middle age pupils, located in Lafayette, Chambers County. The school has 129 pupils enrolled. It is part of the Chambers County school district. It serves grades 6–8 in a rural setting. The school employs 8.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 14.5:1.
John P Powell Middle School enrolls 129 students across grades 6–8. The student body is 51% male and 49% female. A teaching staff of 8.9 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 14.5:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 74% Black or African American, 22% White and 3.9% Hispanic or Latino.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Black or African American | 96 | 74% |
| White | 28 | 22% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 5 | 3.9% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
123 of the school's 129 students (95%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
John P Powell Middle School is located in a rural setting (NCES locale: Rural, Distant). The school runs a schoolwide Title I program, which provides federal funding to support students from low-income families. For civic and policy purposes, the school sits in congressional district DE-30.
John P Powell Middle School is one of 10 schools in Chambers County, based in Lafayette, Alabama. The district serves 3,203 students district-wide and employs 181 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 129 students, John P Powell Middle School is smaller than the district average of about 320 students per school.
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