Anna F Booth Elementary School

Anna F Booth Elementary School is one of the small K-5 schools in Irvington, Alabama, one of the schools within Mobile County, with 391 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Mobile County runs 85 schools in total, collectively educating 49,946 students. Anna F Booth Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Anna F Booth Elementary School records that White students make up the majority at 72%. The remainder consists of 9% Black, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Mobile County as a whole is about 56% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Anna F Booth Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 32.7%; this one delivers 59.7%, a residual of +27.0 points.

In the surrounding community, Mobile County reports that median household earnings sit near $58,880, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Mobile County's 107 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,070 students), Anna F Booth Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Alma Bryant High School, roughly 0.6 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Anna F Booth Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 33.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Anna F Booth Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 23% since 2018, when it stood at 511 (now 391). Over the same period, the Asian share contracted from 12% to 6%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

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