Daphne East Elementary School

Daphne East Elementary School is one of the sprawling elementary schools in Daphne, Alabama, part of Baldwin County, with 947 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so Daphne East Elementary School sits 97% bigger than that benchmark.

Baldwin County comprises 42 schools with combined enrollment of 31,965 students; Daphne East Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Daphne East Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 61%. Other groups include 19% Black, 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Daphne East Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.3%; this one delivers 64.7%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Baldwin County indicate median household income runs about $78,775, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Baldwin County runs 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,975 students), of which Daphne East Elementary School is one.

Daphne Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Daphne East Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.0%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Daphne East Elementary School has fell 18%, going from 1,150 students in 2018 to 947 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 72% to 61% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.