Crestline Elementary School

As a big elementary campus in Mountain Brook, Alabama, Crestline Elementary School works with 743 students from grades pre-K through 6, overseen by Mountain Brook City. That puts it 55% bigger than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 480 students.

Mountain Brook City runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 4,425 students. Crestline Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Crestline Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). The remainder consists of 3% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 48% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Roughly 2% of students at Crestline Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Jefferson County's rate of about 52%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Crestline Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 82.6%; this one delivers 91.6%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate median household income runs about $66,388, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Jefferson County's 181 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students), Crestline Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Mountain Brook Junior High School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Crestline Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Crestline Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Crestline Elementary School has held roughly steady, going from 751 students in 2018 to 743 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Crestline Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.