De Armanville Elementary School

De Armanville Elementary School is a reasonably sized primary school in Anniston, Alabama, part of Oxford City. The school caters to 478 students in grades pre-K through 4.

Oxford City comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 4,103 students; De Armanville Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, De Armanville Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 32% Black, 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, De Armanville Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Alabama schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 44.8%; actual is 63.4%, +18.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, Calhoun County reports that median household income runs about $55,029, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Calhoun County's 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,686 students), De Armanville Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Golden Springs Elementary School, roughly 1.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around De Armanville Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), De Armanville Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 40.9%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. De Armanville Elementary School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 490 (now 478). The White share of enrollment shrank from 50% to 44% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.