Englewood Elementary School

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Englewood Elementary School teaches 522 students from grades 3 through 5, part of Tuscaloosa County.

Within Tuscaloosa County, which oversees 35 schools and 19,278 students, Englewood Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Englewood Elementary School reports that Black students make up the majority at 77%. Beyond that, the school logs 13% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 31% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Englewood Elementary School has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Englewood Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.7%, the actual is 35.0%, a residual of -4.7 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Tuscaloosa County) reports that median household earnings sit near $66,231, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Tuscaloosa County runs 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,508 students), of which Englewood Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Taylorville Primary School, around 1.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Englewood Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Englewood Elementary School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 36.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Englewood Elementary School's enrollment has fell 5% since 2018, when it stood at 549 (now 522). Over the same period, the White share declined from 35% to 13%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Englewood Elementary School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.