Dr Robert W Gilliard Elementary

Dr Robert W Gilliard Elementary is a sprawling primary school in Mobile, Alabama, part of Mobile County. The school serves 806 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 68% bigger than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 480 students.

Across the 85 schools in Mobile County (49,946 students total), Dr Robert W Gilliard Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Dr Robert W Gilliard Elementary lists that nearly all students (80%) are Black; the rest breaks down as 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 36% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Mobile County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dr Robert W Gilliard Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 20.9%; this one delivers 44.9%, a residual of +24.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Mobile County) reports that median household earnings sit near $58,880, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Mobile County's 107 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,070 students), Dr Robert W Gilliard Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Ben C Rain High School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dr Robert W Gilliard Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.5%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dr Robert W Gilliard Elementary has climbed 3%, going from 785 students in 2018 to 806 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 today.

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