Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Fort Payne Middle School, Fort Payne, AL

CEP schoolFort Payne Middle School is a public middle school in Fort Payne, part of Fort Payne City School District. It enrolled 741 students in 2024-25, with 15.8 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 741
Teachers (FTE): 47.0
Students per teacher: 15.8
Grades: 6 to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 15.5. The Alabama average across schools is 17.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school15.8

District15.5

Alabama17.2

United States15.3

School details

Address: 4910 Martin Ave NE, Fort Payne, AL 35967
Phone: (256)845-7501
District: Fort Payne City School District
County: DeKalb County
Level: Middle
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Town: Distant
NCES school ID: 010156001750

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 469
Reduced-price lunch: 0
Free or reduced-price lunch: 46963.3% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 469Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.