Bruce K Craig Elementary School

Bruce K Craig Elementary School operates as an one-room-style elementary-level community in Selma, Alabama, part of Dallas County. Current enrollment sits at 151 students spanning grades 3 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 480 students per school, that is 69% below typical.

Bruce K Craig Elementary School is one of 11 schools operated by Dallas County, a district that hosts 2,283 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bruce K Craig Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (93%). Beyond that, the school logs 5% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 70% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Bruce K Craig Elementary School has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Bruce K Craig Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bruce K Craig Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.3%, the actual is 19.1%, a residual of -6.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $35,627 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 26%. Across Dallas County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,584 students), Bruce K Craig Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Southside Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bruce K Craig Elementary School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 39.7%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bruce K Craig Elementary School has fell 45%, going from 275 students in 2018 to 151 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 99% to 93% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

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