Athens Elementary School

Athens Elementary School is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in Athens, Alabama, run under Athens City, with 474 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 3.

Athens Elementary School is one of 9 schools operated by Athens City, a district that serves 5,405 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Athens Elementary School logs that 41% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 34% White, 17% Black, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

On the income-and-resources front, Athens Elementary School shows 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Limestone County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Athens Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.9%, the actual is 49.0%, a residual of +14.1 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Limestone County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,629, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Limestone County's 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,258 students), Athens Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Athens Renaissance School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Athens Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Athens Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 40.3%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Athens Elementary School has rose 12%, going from 424 students in 2018 to 474 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 28% to 41% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

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