Discovery Middle School
Madison, AL · Middle School · Grades 6-8
Discovery Middle School is a middle school in Madison, AL with 1,334 students enrolled and a 68% proficiency rate. Part of Madison City. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
About This School
Discovery Middle School is a middle school located in Madison, Alabama. The school serves 1,334 students in grades 6-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.7:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 68% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
25% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Discovery Middle School is part of the Madison City in Alabama.
How This School Compares
Discovery Middle School has 1,334 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Madison City (1,134 students). Its 68% proficiency rate is 5 percentage points above the district average of 63%. Compared to the Alabama state average of 45%, the school performs 24 points higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
Discovery Middle School has 1,334 students enrolled in grades 6-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.7:1.
According to EDFacts data, 68% of students at Discovery Middle School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Discovery Middle School is part of the Madison City in Madison, Alabama. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.