Bay Minette Elementary School

Bay Minette Elementary School, a large elementary campus in Bay Minette, Alabama, overseen by Baldwin County, works with 814 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so Bay Minette Elementary School sits 70% above that benchmark.

Baldwin County runs 42 schools in total, collectively educating 31,965 students. Bay Minette Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bay Minette Elementary School logs that 52% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 35% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Bay Minette Elementary School shows 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Bay Minette Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Baldwin County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bay Minette Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.3%, the actual is 41.7%, a residual of +5.4 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Baldwin County) shows that median household earnings sit near $78,775, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Bay Minette Elementary School is one of 51 public schools in Baldwin County (combined enrollment of about 35,975 students).

Baldwin County High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bay Minette Elementary School at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 34.7%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 11%: 910 students in 2018 compared to 814 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the Bay Minette Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.