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Cold Springs Elementary School
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Alabama's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Cold Springs Elementary School
Set in Bremen, Alabama, Cold Springs Elementary School is a medium-sized K-5 school, one of the schools within Cullman County. It instructs 500 students across grades pre-K through 8.
Cold Springs Elementary School is one of 25 schools operated by Cullman County, a district that teaches 9,901 students overall.
Demographically, Cold Springs Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). The remainder reads as 4% multiracial. Compared to Cullman County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, Cold Springs Elementary School reports 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. The state averages about 17.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 40% of students at Cold Springs Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Cold Springs Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.7%.
Around the school, census data for Cullman County shows median household income runs about $62,656, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Cullman County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,144 students), of which Cold Springs Elementary School is one.
Cold Springs High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Cold Springs Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.7%.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cold Springs Elementary School has stayed largely flat, going from 493 students in 2018 to 500 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.
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Cullman County at a glance
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