DC Wolfe School

DC Wolfe School is one of the one-room-style primary schools in Shorter, Alabama, part of Macon County, with 111 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so DC Wolfe School sits 77% leaner than that benchmark.

Macon County comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,907 students; DC Wolfe School is among them.

Looking at the student body, DC Wolfe School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (93%). The remainder comes out to 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 78% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, DC Wolfe School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.8%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Macon County indicate the typical household earns roughly $43,707 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 20%. Across Macon County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,907 students), DC Wolfe School is one campus in the mix.

Pike Road Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 8.4 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, DC Wolfe School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DC Wolfe School has shrank 7%, going from 120 students in 2018 to 111 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 1% to 5% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

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