Chalkville Elementary School

Chalkville Elementary School operates as a well-populated K-5 school in Birmingham, Alabama, part of Jefferson County. Current enrollment sits at 818 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 70% larger than the state mean of about 480.

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

Demographically, Chalkville Elementary School logs that Black students make up the majority at 79%; the rest comes out to 15% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Chalkville Elementary School logs 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Jefferson County (around 52%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Chalkville Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.6%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Jefferson County put median household earnings sit near $66,388, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Chalkville Elementary School is one of 181 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students).

Bryant Park Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chalkville Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Chalkville Elementary School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 41.9%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Chalkville Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 36% since 2018, when it stood at 1,276 (now 818). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 7% to 15% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 today.

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