Cottonwood Elementary School

Cottonwood Elementary School is a medium-sized primary school in Cottonwood, Alabama, overseen by Houston County. The school teaches 502 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Houston County comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 6,907 students; Cottonwood Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Cottonwood Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% Black, 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 65%.

In terms of school funding signals, Cottonwood Elementary School records 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Cottonwood Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Alabama schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 39.7%; actual is 59.6%, +19.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Houston County) records that median household income runs about $58,626, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Houston County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,127 students), of which Cottonwood Elementary School is one.

Cottonwood High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Cottonwood Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 36.9%.

The school occupies a rural site.

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