Center Point Elementary School

Center Point Elementary School is an elementary campus of mid-sized scale in Birmingham, Alabama, operated by Jefferson County, educateing 557 students in grades pre-K through 2.

Jefferson County runs 55 schools in total, collectively educating 35,444 students. Center Point Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Center Point Elementary School records that 86% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 13% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $66,388 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Center Point Elementary School is one of 181 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students).

The closest other public school is Erwin Intermediate School, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Center Point Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 21%: 705 students in 2018 compared to 557 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 4% to 13% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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