Breitling Elementary School

Set in Grand Bay, Alabama, Breitling Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school, operated by Mobile County. It educates 471 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within Mobile County, which oversees 85 schools and 49,946 students, Breitling Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Breitling Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%); the rest comes out to 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

On the resource side, Breitling Elementary School reports 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Breitling Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.2%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Mobile County put the typical household earns roughly $58,880 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Mobile County runs 107 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,070 students), of which Breitling Elementary School is one.

Cora Castlen Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.3 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Breitling Elementary School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 33.4%.

Breitling Elementary School operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Breitling Elementary School has fell 19%, going from 585 students in 2018 to 471 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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