Central Park Elementary School

Central Park Elementary School, a modestly sized elementary campus in Birmingham, Alabama, one of the schools within Birmingham City, hosts 386 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 43 schools in Birmingham City (20,954 students total), Central Park Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Central Park Elementary School reports that 79% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 19% Hispanic. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 72% of students at Central Park Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jefferson County (around 52%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Central Park Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.4%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,388 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Central Park Elementary School is one of 181 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students).

Nearest neighbor: Legacy Prep Intermediate, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Central Park Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.6%.

Central Park Elementary School operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Central Park Elementary School has declined 25%, going from 518 students in 2018 to 386 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 9% to 19% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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