AH Watwood Elementary School

AH Watwood Elementary School is a cozy elementary-level community in Childersburg, Alabama, overseen by Talladega County. The school hosts 289 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 40% smaller than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 480 students.

Within Talladega County, which oversees 17 schools and 7,321 students, AH Watwood Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, AH Watwood Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 42% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Talladega County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, AH Watwood Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 31.9%; AH Watwood Elementary School posts 56.1%, +24.1 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, Talladega County reports that the typical household earns roughly $57,776 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. AH Watwood Elementary School is one of 33 public schools in Talladega County (combined enrollment of about 10,973 students).

Nearest neighbor: Childersburg High School, around 1.0 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, AH Watwood Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 19%: 358 students in 2018 compared to 289 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 53% to 45% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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