EPIC Alternative Elementary School

EPIC Alternative Elementary School is one of the small elementary schools in Birmingham, Alabama, run under Birmingham City, with 232 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so EPIC Alternative Elementary School sits 52% below that benchmark.

Within Birmingham City, which oversees 43 schools and 20,954 students, EPIC Alternative Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, EPIC Alternative Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (92%); the rest reads as 3% White, 2% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, EPIC Alternative Elementary School has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 42% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jefferson County (around 52%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, EPIC Alternative Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Alabama schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 53.6%; actual is 73.6%, +20.0 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $66,388 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. EPIC Alternative Elementary School is one of 181 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students).

Nearest neighbor: Glen Iris Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, EPIC Alternative Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 38.5%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EPIC Alternative Elementary School has declined 43%, going from 410 students in 2018 to 232 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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