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Aliceville Elementary School
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Alabama's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Aliceville Elementary School
As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Aliceville, Alabama, Aliceville Elementary School teaches 415 students from grades pre-K through 6, one of the schools within Pickens County.
Pickens County comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,210 students; Aliceville Elementary School is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Aliceville Elementary School shows that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The wider county runs roughly 41% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Aliceville Elementary School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Pickens County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Aliceville Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.1%, the actual is 27.3%, a residual of +7.2 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Pickens County indicate the typical household earns roughly $46,274 per year, about 13% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Aliceville Elementary School is one of 7 public schools in Pickens County (combined enrollment of about 2,210 students).
Nearest neighbor: Aliceville High School, around 1.0 miles off. On composite proficiency, Aliceville Elementary School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Five-year trend. Aliceville Elementary School's enrollment has climbed 22% since 2018, when it stood at 340 (now 415). Class-load math has grew: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, the feed for Aliceville Elementary School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Pickens County at a glance
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