ABC Elementary

Located at 3000 County Road 29, in Alberta, Alabama, ABC Elementary is a micro-enrollment elementary school that works with 103 students (grades pre-K through 6), one of the schools within Wilcox County. That puts it 79% below the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 480 students.

Within Wilcox County, which oversees 5 schools and 1,147 students, ABC Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ABC Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (96%). The remainder reads as 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Wilcox County as a whole is about 70% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, ABC Elementary has 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ABC Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.4%, the actual is 22.8%, a residual of -2.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Wilcox County indicate the typical household earns roughly $40,640 per year, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 24%. In all, Wilcox County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,147 students), of which ABC Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Keith MiddleHigh School, roughly 10.9 miles away. On composite proficiency, ABC Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.4%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ABC Elementary has contracted 16%, going from 122 students in 2018 to 103 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the ABC Elementary community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.