Frances Nungester Elementary School

Frances Nungester Elementary School is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary schools in Decatur, Alabama, one of the schools within Decatur City, with 428 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Within Decatur City, which oversees 19 schools and 8,902 students, Frances Nungester Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Frances Nungester Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Black (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 27% Hispanic, 16% White, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Frances Nungester Elementary School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Morgan County's rate of about 56%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Frances Nungester Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.1%; this one delivers 33.5%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Morgan County put the typical household earns roughly $68,845 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Morgan County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,204 students), of which Frances Nungester Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Chestnut Grove Elementary School, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Frances Nungester Elementary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 35.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 8%: 396 students in 2018 compared to 428 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share increased from 36% to 47%.

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