HL Sonny Callahan School for the Deaf and Blind

HL Sonny Callahan School for the Deaf and Blind operates as a tiny elementary school in Mobile, Alabama, part of Mobile County. Current enrollment sits at 45 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so HL Sonny Callahan School for the Deaf and Blind sits 91% smaller than that benchmark.

Mobile County comprises 85 schools with combined enrollment of 49,946 students; HL Sonny Callahan School for the Deaf and Blind is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HL Sonny Callahan School for the Deaf and Blind logs that the largest single group is Black at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 40% White, 13% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, HL Sonny Callahan School for the Deaf and Blind records 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 5.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Mobile County's rate of about 67%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Mobile County indicate 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%. In all, Mobile County runs 107 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,070 students), of which HL Sonny Callahan School for the Deaf and Blind is one.

Nearest neighbor: Kate Shepard Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HL Sonny Callahan School for the Deaf and Blind.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. HL Sonny Callahan School for the Deaf and Blind's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 45 (now 45). Hispanic enrollment moved from 2% to 13% across the same window.

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