Austinville Elementary School

Austinville Elementary School is an elementary-level community of mid-sized scale in Decatur, Alabama, operated by Decatur City, hosting 463 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Decatur City, which oversees 19 schools and 8,902 students, Austinville Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Austinville Elementary School lists that 57% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 26% Black, 11% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Morgan County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Austinville Elementary School shows 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. The state averages about 17.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Morgan County (around 56%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Austinville Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.9%; this one delivers 41.9%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Morgan County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $68,845 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Morgan County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,204 students), of which Austinville Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Austin Junior High School, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Austinville Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Austinville Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 35.0%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Austinville Elementary School has ticked up 19%, going from 388 students in 2018 to 463 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 19% to 11%.

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