Movico is a

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and

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, United States. Its population was 291 as of the 2020 census. The town was heavily damaged by an EF2 tornado on January 12, 2023.

Geography

Movico is in northeastern Mobile County, along

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. It is north of Mobile and south of

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Demographics

Education

Residents are zoned to

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campuses. Residents are zoned to

Citronelle High School Citronelle High School is a senior high school in Citronelle, Alabama. It is a part of the Mobile County Public School System. In serves: Citronelle, Axis, Bucks, Chunchula, Creola, Gulfcrest, Mount Vernon, and Movico, as well as the Mobile ...

. The community was formerly in the attendance boundary of the Belsaw/Mr. Vernon

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,A copy of the school's attendance boundary, as the file "Belsaw Mt. Vernon.pdf", is available from the Mobile County Public School System Student Support Services Department
This file was previously available online
(see "Elementary Attendance Zone Maps(A-I)" "Belsaw Mt Vernon" but the link is broken) which closed in 2016.

References

Census-designated places in Mobile County, Alabama Census-designated places in Alabama {{MobileCountyAL-geo-stub