Greystone Elementary School

Located at 300 Village Street, in Hoover, Alabama, Greystone Elementary School is an average-sized elementary-level community that teaches 438 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Hoover City.

Greystone Elementary School is one of 16 schools operated by Hoover City, a district that hosts 13,632 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Greystone Elementary School records that 66% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 12% Black, 10% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Greystone Elementary School shows 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Roughly 16% of students at Greystone Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Shelby County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Greystone Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.6%, the actual is 83.9%, a residual of +11.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Shelby County put median household income runs about $97,961, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Greystone Elementary School is one of 48 public schools in Shelby County (combined enrollment of about 35,120 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mt Laurel Elementary School, around 1.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Greystone Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Greystone Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 38.5%.

Greystone Elementary School operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 14%: 510 students in 2018 compared to 438 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 72% to 66%.

On the community side, members of the Greystone Elementary School community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.