Crestmont Elementary School

Crestmont Elementary School, a cozy K-5 school in Northport, Alabama, run under Tuscaloosa County, enrolls 268 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 480 students per school, that is 44% below typical.

Crestmont Elementary School is one of 35 schools operated by Tuscaloosa County, a district that teaches 19,278 students overall.

On demographics, Crestmont Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is Black (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 32% Hispanic, 12% White, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Tuscaloosa County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Crestmont Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.8%, the actual is 31.3%, a residual of +1.5 points.

Across the wider county, Tuscaloosa County reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,231 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Tuscaloosa County runs 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,508 students), of which Crestmont Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lloyd Wood Education Center, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Crestmont Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.3%.

Crestmont Elementary School operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 23%: 350 students in 2018 compared to 268 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 16% to 32%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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