The reported proficiency rate for Math is 0%.
Original Research by School Decision on Kinterbish Junior High School
Kinterbish Junior High School is a regular public school in rural west Alabama, serving students from kindergarten through fifth grade in the Sumter County district. The school sits near the unincorporated community of Kinterbish, close to the small town of Cuba. Cuba itself is a low-density, agricultural town in the state’s Black Belt region, a part of Alabama historically tied to cotton farming and now characterized by a quiet, rural landscape with scattered homes, churches, and state highways. The town’s population has been declining for some time, and no major new housing or commercial developments have been documented in publicly available sources. The school is one of several in Sumter County, which also includes Sumter Central High School, and its location on a rural highway means families in the area rely on vehicular travel for drop-off and pickup.
Enrollment at Kinterbish Junior High School is small. This is a school where the student body is predominantly Black, with a much smaller share of white students and a very small number of students identifying as two or more races. No data was available on how many students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which is a common proxy for economic need, nor on students receiving special education services or English learner support. Those gaps leave an incomplete picture of the student supports in place, and a parent may want to ask the school directly about these resources.
State assessment results for the 2022-23 school year are reported for math and are absent or suppressed for English language arts. For math, the proficiency rate for all tested grade levels third through eighth was recorded in the data, but the results themselves showed a value of zero. Because the tested counts were suppressed, it is not possible to tell how many students were assessed, and the school’s participation rate was also suppressed. This makes direct interpretation difficult. For English language arts and science, results were suppressed entirely for every grade level, meaning the totals were too small to report under state privacy rules. A school with a small enrollment often has suppressed data for this reason, and it does not necessarily mean that students are not being taught or assessed. But the available information does not provide a clear picture of academic performance in reading or science, and a family considering this school would be wise to speak with the principal or district office for a fuller understanding of how students are progressing.
The grade span is limited to elementary grades kindergarten through five, so there is no high school graduation rate to evaluate, nor any data on Advanced Placement, dual credit, or career and technical coursework. Those options begin at the secondary level and would be found at the district’s high school. Kinterbish is a small, rural elementary school within a district for which publicly reported changes or strategic priorities were not found in recent research. No major facility updates, leadership shifts, or program additions have been documented.
For a family weighing this school, the central facts are these. It is a very small school in a rural, depopulating community. The student body is almost entirely Black. Academic proficiency data is largely suppressed or reported as zero, which may be a function of the small testing population but leaves parents without a standard benchmark. The school serves only the early grades, so any decision about the secondary school pathway involves looking ahead to Sumter Central High School and what it offers. The lack of economic and special-population data also means a parent will need to get that information from the school or district office. Kinterbish Junior High School fits a family seeking a small, rural elementary setting where the student body is homogeneous and the school is the local neighborhood option. It does not present, from the available evidence, robust test-score data, course breadth, or documented student supports.
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