Kate Duncan Smith Dar Middle Middle School
6077 Main St
Grant AL, 35747, Marshall County
Phone: 256-728-5950
Ranking: 
(181 out of 1,064, top 17%)*
(181 out of 1,064, top 17%)*Type: Regular Middle School
Status: Currently Operational
Grade: Grade 5 to Grade 8
School District: Marshall County School District
Title I Eligible School: Yes School-Wide Title I: NA
Magnet: NA
Charter: NA
Shared-Time School: NA
Students and Teachers
| 2013-2014 | 2012-2013 | 2011-2012 | 2010-2011 | 2009-2010 | 2008-2009 | 2007-2008 | ||||||||
| Amount | % | Amount | % | Amount | % | Amount | % | Amount | % | Amount | % | Amount | % | |
| Total Teachers: | 24 | 36 | 43 | 39 | 34 | 20 | 18 | |||||||
| Total Students: | 439 | 469 | 509 | 428 | 391 | 382 | 350 | |||||||
| Grade 5: | 106 | 24.1% | 113 | 24.1% | 111 | 21.8% | 110 | 25.7% | 110 | 28.1% | 113 | 29.6% | 82 | 23.4% |
| Grade 6: | 107 | 24.4% | 102 | 21.7% | 133 | 26.1% | 111 | 25.9% | 112 | 28.6% | 89 | 23.3% | 76 | 21.7% |
| Grade 7: | 97 | 22.1% | 127 | 27.1% | 131 | 25.7% | 115 | 26.9% | 90 | 23.0% | 80 | 20.9% | 95 | 27.1% |
| Grade 8: | 129 | 29.4% | 127 | 27.1% | 134 | 26.3% | 92 | 21.5% | 79 | 20.2% | 100 | 26.2% | 97 | 27.7% |
| Ungraded: | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Student By Gender: | ||||||||||||||
| Male: | 228 | 51.9% | 242 | 51.6% | 266 | 52.3% | 220 | 51.4% | 200 | 51.2% | 211 | 55.2% | 185 | 52.9% |
| Female: | 211 | 48.1% | 227 | 48.4% | 243 | 47.7% | 208 | 48.6% | 180 | 46.0% | 163 | 42.7% | 161 | 46.0% |
| Student By Races: | ||||||||||||||
| American Indian/Alaska Native: | 2 | 0.5% | 2 | 0.4% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% |
| Asian: | 2 | 0.5% | 2 | 0.4% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% |
| Hispanic: | 11 | 2.5% | 12 | 2.6% | 7 | 1.4% | 8 | 1.9% | 8 | 2.0% | 6 | 1.6% | 3 | 0.9% |
| Black: | 7 | 1.6% | 4 | 0.9% | 3 | 0.6% | 1 | 0.2% | 1 | 0.3% | 1 | 0.3% | 1 | 0.3% |
| White: | 414 | 94.3% | 449 | 95.7% | 499 | 98.0% | 419 | 97.9% | 379 | 96.9% | 375 | 98.2% | 346 | 98.9% |
| Hawaiian Native/Pacific Islander: | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Two or More Races: | 3 | 0.7% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Lunch Program: | ||||||||||||||
| Free Lunch Program Eligible: | 200 | 45.6% | 223 | 47.5% | 242 | 47.5% | 173 | 40.4% | 156 | 39.9% | 145 | 38.0% | 117 | 33.4% |
| Reduced-Price Lunch Program Eligible: | 41 | 9.3% | 44 | 9.4% | 45 | 8.8% | 37 | 8.6% | 37 | 9.5% | 42 | 11.0% | 60 | 17.1% |
| Student-Teacher Ratio: | 18.60 | 13.19 | 11.97 | 10.85 | 11.52 | 19.30 | 19.90 | |||||||
Test Performance
| Year | Test | Grade | Measurement | Score | School District | State Average |
| ADAW | ||||||
| 2004 | Grammar and Usage | 5th Grade | % met std | 47.5% | 45.3% | 50.6% |
| 2005 | Grammar and Usage | 5th Grade | % met std | 44.5% | 39.2% | 42.2% |
| 2006 | Grammar and Usage | 5th Grade | % met std | 49.4% | 44.2% | 45% |
| 2008 | Grammar and Usage | 5th Grade | % met std | 48.72% | 32.21% | 37.08% |
| 2009 | Grammar and Usage | 5th Grade | % met std | 50.45% | 37.9% | 37.25% |
| 2004 | Holistic Composition | 5th Grade | % met std | 48.7% | 54.1% | 57.3% |
| 2005 | Holistic Composition | 5th Grade | % met std | 55.9% | 58.9% | 58.7% |
| 2006 | Holistic Composition | 5th Grade | % met std | 66.2% | 65% | 64% |
| 2008 | Holistic Composition | 5th Grade | % met std | 69.23% | 68.63% | 62.46% |
| 2009 | Holistic Composition | 5th Grade | % met std | 67.89% | 73.77% | 64.88% |
| 2004 | Sentence Formation | 5th Grade | % met std | 40.2% | 44.6% | 48.9% |
| 2005 | Sentence Formation | 5th Grade | % met std | 37.3% | 34.4% | 44.4% |
| 2006 | Sentence Formation | 5th Grade | % met std | 55% | 43.2% | 48.1% |
| 2008 | Sentence Formation | 5th Grade | % met std | 44.87% | 40.72% | 43.41% |
| 2009 | Sentence Formation | 5th Grade | % met std | 33.94% | 42.83% | 43.74% |
| 2004 | Writing Mechanics | 5th Grade | % met std | 51.2% | 38.5% | 47% |
| 2005 | Writing Mechanics | 5th Grade | % met std | 42.1% | 31% | 42.6% |
| 2006 | Writing Mechanics | 5th Grade | % met std | 49.4% | 40.7% | 48.1% |
| 2008 | Writing Mechanics | 5th Grade | % met std | 39.74% | 31.96% | 39.83% |
| 2009 | Writing Mechanics | 5th Grade | % met std | 40.37% | 35.54% | 40.59% |
| 2004 | Grammar and Usage | 7th Grade | % met std | 35.9% | 41.8% | 42% |
| 2005 | Grammar and Usage | 7th Grade | % met std | 38% | 36.1% | 41% |
| 2006 | Grammar and Usage | 7th Grade | % met std | 60.2% | 46.1% | 45.4% |
| 2008 | Grammar and Usage | 7th Grade | % met std | 52.23% | 42.75% | 46.94% |
| 2009 | Grammar and Usage | 7th Grade | % met std | 52.5% | 57.31% | 56.16% |
| 2004 | Holistic Composition | 7th Grade | % met std | 40.4% | 59% | 55.7% |
| 2005 | Holistic Composition | 7th Grade | % met std | 62% | 62.3% | 63% |
| 2006 | Holistic Composition | 7th Grade | % met std | 60.2% | 60.1% | 60% |
| 2008 | Holistic Composition | 7th Grade | % met std | 67.77% | 63.08% | 65.27% |
| 2009 | Holistic Composition | 7th Grade | % met std | 73.75% | 73.77% | 65.55% |
| 2004 | Sentence Formation | 7th Grade | % met std | 43.8% | 51% | 51.7% |
| 2005 | Sentence Formation | 7th Grade | % met std | 44% | 45.1% | 48.9% |
| 2006 | Sentence Formation | 7th Grade | % met std | 67% | 57.8% | 55.1% |
| 2008 | Sentence Formation | 7th Grade | % met std | 61.11% | 55.53% | 56.69% |
| 2009 | Sentence Formation | 7th Grade | % met std | 56.25% | 62.02% | 62.72% |
| 2004 | Writing Mechanics | 7th Grade | % met std | 38.2% | 44.6% | 51.1% |
| 2005 | Writing Mechanics | 7th Grade | % met std | 58% | 44.5% | 48.9% |
| 2006 | Writing Mechanics | 7th Grade | % met std | 62.5% | 52.9% | 51.2% |
| 2008 | Writing Mechanics | 7th Grade | % met std | 66.67% | 60.44% | 58.32% |
| 2009 | Writing Mechanics | 7th Grade | % met std | 58.75% | 58.72% | 60.06% |
| ARMT | ||||||
| 2005 | Mathematics | 5th Grade | % met std | 88.7% | 66.9% | 71.8% |
| 2006 | Mathematics | 5th Grade | % met std | 83.1% | 76.2% | 76.5% |
| 2007 | Mathematics | 5th Grade | % met std | 88.32% | 77.86% | 77.26% |
| 2008 | Mathematics | 5th Grade | % met std | 85.19% | 83.17% | 77.97% |
| 2009 | Mathematics | 5th Grade | % met std | 87.27% | 83.51% | 79.94% |
| 2010 | Mathematics | 5th Grade | % met std | 88.78% | 85.38% | 82.61% |
| 2011 | Mathematics | 5th Grade | % met std | 93.58% | 92.21% | 88.95% |
| 2012 | Mathematics | 5th Grade | % met std | 100% | 96.66% | 91.32% |
| 2005 | Reading | 5th Grade | % met std | 90% | 79.9% | 80.9% |
| 2006 | Reading | 5th Grade | % met std | 84.2% | 78.8% | 80.7% |
| 2007 | Reading | 5th Grade | % met std | 88.31% | 84.04% | 84.6% |
| 2008 | Reading | 5th Grade | % met std | 87.66% | 86.59% | 84.37% |
| 2009 | Reading | 5th Grade | % met std | 81.81% | 83.72% | 84.65% |
| 2010 | Reading | 5th Grade | % met std | 91.51% | 84.09% | 85.64% |
| 2011 | Reading | 5th Grade | % met std | 92.66% | 88.34% | 88.59% |
| 2012 | Reading | 5th Grade | % met std | 94.23% | 89.74% | 88.88% |
| 2004 | Mathematics | 6th Grade | % met std | 47.6% | 51.7% | 56% |
| 2005 | Mathematics | 6th Grade | % met std | 73.1% | 60.7% | 66.5% |
| 2006 | Mathematics | 6th Grade | % met std | 83.6% | 77.3% | 74.7% |
| 2007 | Mathematics | 6th Grade | % met std | 79.57% | 73.26% | 73.46% |
| 2008 | Mathematics | 6th Grade | % met std | 87.18% | 68.01% | 71.9% |
| 2009 | Mathematics | 6th Grade | % met std | 93.19% | 75.06% | 74.92% |
| 2010 | Mathematics | 6th Grade | % met std | 89.28% | 76.04% | 76.94% |
| 2011 | Mathematics | 6th Grade | % met std | 91.31% | 80.59% | 77.64% |
| 2012 | Mathematics | 6th Grade | % met std | 85.61% | 82.97% | 77.16% |
| 2004 | Reading | 6th Grade | % met std | 88.8% | 83.2% | 82.4% |
| 2005 | Reading | 6th Grade | % met std | 90.3% | 82.8% | 81.6% |
| 2006 | Reading | 6th Grade | % met std | 94.5% | 82.2% | 83% |
| 2007 | Reading | 6th Grade | % met std | 90.33% | 84.1% | 84.87% |
| 2008 | Reading | 6th Grade | % met std | 89.74% | 84.29% | 86.61% |
| 2009 | Reading | 6th Grade | % met std | 90.91% | 82.52% | 86.2% |
| 2010 | Reading | 6th Grade | % met std | 87.5% | 84.62% | 86.13% |
| 2011 | Reading | 6th Grade | % met std | 89.57% | 86.02% | 88.19% |
| 2012 | Reading | 6th Grade | % met std | 90.91% | 86.68% | 88.35% |
| 2005 | Mathematics | 7th Grade | % met std | 68% | 60.3% | 56.9% |
| 2006 | Mathematics | 7th Grade | % met std | 65.9% | 53.5% | 59.1% |
| 2007 | Mathematics | 7th Grade | % met std | 76.05% | 64.88% | 59.82% |
| 2008 | Mathematics | 7th Grade | % met std | 69.7% | 65.66% | 61.26% |
| 2009 | Mathematics | 7th Grade | % met std | 85.89% | 75.18% | 65.79% |
| 2010 | Mathematics | 7th Grade | % met std | 96.59% | 78.62% | 68.76% |
| 2011 | Mathematics | 7th Grade | % met std | 75% | 77.89% | 70.36% |
| 2012 | Mathematics | 7th Grade | % met std | 83.46% | 83.34% | 72.5% |
| 2005 | Reading | 7th Grade | % met std | 87.8% | 72.7% | 75.1% |
| 2006 | Reading | 7th Grade | % met std | 87.5% | 73.6% | 74.3% |
| 2007 | Reading | 7th Grade | % met std | 86.46% | 74.89% | 77% |
| 2008 | Reading | 7th Grade | % met std | 90.91% | 78.28% | 79.13% |
| 2009 | Reading | 7th Grade | % met std | 88.46% | 80.86% | 81.28% |
| 2010 | Reading | 7th Grade | % met std | 92.05% | 85.21% | 83.02% |
| 2011 | Reading | 7th Grade | % met std | 89.74% | 88.87% | 84.9% |
| 2012 | Reading | 7th Grade | % met std | 92.19% | 88.35% | 86.25% |
| 2005 | Mathematics | 8th Grade | % met std | 71.9% | 62.9% | 63% |
| 2006 | Mathematics | 8th Grade | % met std | 78.1% | 66.6% | 67.6% |
| 2007 | Mathematics | 8th Grade | % met std | 70.11% | 65.61% | 66.3% |
| 2008 | Mathematics | 8th Grade | % met std | 84.04% | 71.3% | 68.13% |
| 2009 | Mathematics | 8th Grade | % met std | 87.75% | 76.3% | 73.77% |
| 2010 | Mathematics | 8th Grade | % met std | 96.16% | 81.31% | 78.62% |
| 2011 | Mathematics | 8th Grade | % met std | 94.51% | 84.52% | 77.01% |
| 2012 | Mathematics | 8th Grade | % met std | 86.47% | 88.19% | 78.62% |
| 2004 | Reading | 8th Grade | % met std | 79% | 63.1% | 57.3% |
| 2005 | Reading | 8th Grade | % met std | 73% | 67.4% | 69.5% |
| 2006 | Reading | 8th Grade | % met std | 84.3% | 74.6% | 71.7% |
| 2007 | Reading | 8th Grade | % met std | 79.31% | 70.52% | 71.94% |
| 2008 | Reading | 8th Grade | % met std | 88.3% | 68.79% | 73.87% |
| 2009 | Reading | 8th Grade | % met std | 87.76% | 72.81% | 74.89% |
| 2010 | Reading | 8th Grade | % met std | 82.05% | 73.54% | 73.51% |
| 2011 | Reading | 8th Grade | % met std | 89.13% | 81% | 76.95% |
| 2012 | Reading | 8th Grade | % met std | 87.22% | 85.47% | 79.33% |
| ASA | ||||||
| 2008 | Science | 5th Grade | % met std | 82.9% | 70.95% | 69.84% |
| 2009 | Science | 5th Grade | % met std | 86.24% | 76.48% | 73.2% |
| 2010 | Science | 5th Grade | % met std | 86.14% | 80.97% | 77.35% |
| 2011 | Science | 5th Grade | % met std | 88.07% | 88.16% | 78.77% |
| 2012 | Science | 5th Grade | % met std | 94.11% | 88.25% | 80.09% |
| 2008 | Science | 7th Grade | % met std | 67.74% | 68.25% | 60.51% |
| 2009 | Science | 7th Grade | % met std | 80.77% | 78.44% | 70.34% |
| 2010 | Science | 7th Grade | % met std | 87.36% | 75.92% | 68.79% |
| 2011 | Science | 7th Grade | % met std | 77.39% | 73.74% | 68.5% |
| 2012 | Science | 7th Grade | % met std | 80.31% | 81.73% | 75.67% |
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* Kate Duncan Smith Dar Middle Middle School was rated 4.5 out of 5 by USA.com. The ranking was calculated based on publically available historical Math and English performance data.