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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Ossie Ware Mitchell Middle School, Birmingham, AL

CEP schoolOssie Ware Mitchell Middle School is a public middle school in Birmingham, part of Birmingham City School District. It enrolled 330 students in 2024-25, with 22.0 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
330
Teachers (FTE)
15.0
Students per teacher
22.0
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is 2.8 higher than the district figure of 19.2. The Alabama average across schools is 17.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school22.0
District19.2
Alabama17.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
501 81st Street South, Birmingham, AL 35206
Phone
(205)231-9400
District
Birmingham City School District
County
Jefferson County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Midsize
NCES school ID
010039001823
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
290
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
29087.9% of enrollment.
Direct certification
290Students 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.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Birmingham City School District

Middle schools elsewhere in Birmingham

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

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.