Dauphin Island Elementary School

Dauphin Island Elementary School operates as a micro-enrollment K-5 school in Dauphin Island, Alabama, operated by Mobile County. Current enrollment sits at 60 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so Dauphin Island Elementary School sits 88% smaller than that benchmark.

Dauphin Island Elementary School is one of 85 schools operated by Mobile County, a district that teaches 49,946 students overall.

Demographically, Dauphin Island Elementary School reports that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 7% multiracial. By comparison, Mobile County as a whole is about 56% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Dauphin Island Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Mobile County (around 67%), the school's rate is south of typical.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Mobile County indicate the typical household earns roughly $58,880 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Mobile County runs 107 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,070 students), of which Dauphin Island Elementary School is one.

Peter F Alba Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 12.4 miles from this campus.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Dauphin Island Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 39% since 2018, when it stood at 98 (now 60). Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 2% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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