Erwin Craighead Elementary School

Located at 1000 South Ann St, in Mobile, Alabama, Erwin Craighead Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school that teaches 380 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Mobile County. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so Erwin Craighead Elementary School sits 21% below that benchmark.

Mobile County comprises 85 schools with combined enrollment of 49,946 students; Erwin Craighead Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Erwin Craighead Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (93%). Beyond that, the school reports 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Mobile County as a whole is about 36% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Erwin Craighead Elementary School has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Mobile County's rate of about 67%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Erwin Craighead Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.2%.

In the area at large, census data for Mobile County shows median household earnings sit near $58,880, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Mobile County's 107 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,070 students), Erwin Craighead Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Lillie B Williamson High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 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), Erwin Craighead Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 37.3%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Erwin Craighead Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 35% since 2018, when it stood at 586 (now 380). Black enrollment moved from 97% to 93% across the same window.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.