Eden Elementary School

Set in Pell City, Alabama, Eden Elementary School is a small elementary campus, overseen by Pell City. It serves 346 students across grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 28% below the state mean of about 480.

Across the 8 schools in Pell City (4,079 students total), Eden Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Eden Elementary School reports that nearly all students (82%) are White; the rest reads as 9% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Eden Elementary School has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Eden Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 78% of students at Eden Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, St. Clair County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Eden Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.6%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for St. Clair County put the typical household earns roughly $77,463 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Eden Elementary School is one of 29 public schools in St. Clair County (combined enrollment of about 13,737 students).

Duran Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Eden Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Eden Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Eden Elementary School has decreased 9%, going from 379 students in 2018 to 346 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 86% to 82%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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