Crossville Elementary School

Crossville Elementary School is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in Crossville, Alabama, one of the schools within DeKalb County, with 658 students on its rolls from grades K through 3. Compared to the state average of about 480 students per school, that is 37% larger than typical.

DeKalb County comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 8,769 students; Crossville Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Crossville Elementary School shows that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 15% White. The wider county runs roughly 17% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Crossville Elementary School reports 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, DeKalb County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Crossville Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.5%, the actual is 32.5%, a residual of +12.1 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for DeKalb County put the typical household earns roughly $51,204 per year, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across DeKalb County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,277 students), Crossville Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Crossville Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Crossville Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Crossville Elementary School at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 35.6%.

Crossville Elementary School operates from a countryside location.

Looking at the recent track record. Crossville Elementary School's enrollment has expanded 9% since 2018, when it stood at 606 (now 658). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 74% to 83%.

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