Bryan Elementary School

Set in Morris, Alabama, Bryan Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary-level community, overseen by Jefferson County. It instructs 697 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 45% bigger than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 480 students.

Within Jefferson County, which oversees 55 schools and 35,444 students, Bryan Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Bryan Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%); the rest breaks down as 7% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 48% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 26% of students at Bryan Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bryan Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.4%, the actual is 70.9%, a residual of +5.5 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $66,388 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Bryan Elementary School is one of 181 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students).

North Jefferson Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bryan Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 35.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bryan Elementary School has ticked down 9%, going from 765 students in 2018 to 697 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 93% to 86% across the same window.

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