Cobb Preparatory Academy

Cobb Preparatory Academy is a small elementary school in Anniston, Alabama, administered by Anniston City. Students in pre-K through kindergarten make up the school's enrollment of 270 students. Elementary schools in Alabama average about 480 students, which makes this school 44% below average.

Anniston City has 5 schools; together they serve 1,821 students.

Roughly 89% of students at Cobb Preparatory Academy are Black. The remaining students are 4% multiracial, 3% White, and 3% Hispanic. Among people living in Calhoun County, the Black share is about 22%. The diversity index for Cobb Preparatory Academy is 20%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

The school's 16 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.9:1. The 17.0:1 average for elementary schools in Alabama is close to this figure. Income data for the school show 51% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.

Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Calhoun County show that the median household earns about $55,029 a year, about 21% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. Calhoun County has 38 public schools with about 16,686 students, including Cobb Preparatory Academy.

Of the public schools around it, Cobb Preparatory Academy is closest to Randolph Park Elementary School, about 1.0 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

NCES describes the area around Cobb Preparatory Academy as City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

A 20% drop took enrollment from 338 in 2020-21 to 270 in 2024-25.

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