Cary Woods Elementary School

Cary Woods Elementary School is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in Auburn, Alabama, part of Auburn City, with 439 students on its rolls from grades K through 2.

Within Auburn City, which oversees 14 schools and 9,488 students, Cary Woods Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Cary Woods Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 21% Black, 17% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Lee County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Cary Woods Elementary School shows 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Lee County put the typical household earns roughly $65,824 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Lee County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,812 students), Cary Woods Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Drake Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Cary Woods Elementary School operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 15%: 519 students in 2018 compared to 439 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 9% to 17% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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