Cotaco School

Cotaco School operates as a mid-sized K-5 school in Somerville, Alabama, part of Morgan County. Current enrollment sits at 459 students spanning grades pre-K through 8.

Morgan County runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 7,619 students. Cotaco School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cotaco School records that nearly all students (87%) are White. The remainder breaks down as 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Cotaco School logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cotaco School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.3%, the actual is 45.4%, a residual of +6.0 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Morgan County) shows that median household income runs about $68,845, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Morgan County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,204 students), Cotaco School is one campus in the mix.

Albert P Brewer High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Cotaco School. On composite proficiency, Cotaco School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.1%.

Cotaco School operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 8%: 497 students in 2018 compared to 459 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 1% to 6%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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