Holt Elementary School

Located at 1001 Crescent Ridge Road, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Holt Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack primary school that educates 448 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Tuscaloosa County.

Across the 35 schools in Tuscaloosa County (19,278 students total), Holt Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Holt Elementary School lists that 59% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 11% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 31% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 82% of students at Holt Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Tuscaloosa County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Holt Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.8%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Tuscaloosa County put median household earnings sit near $66,231, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Tuscaloosa County's 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,508 students), Holt Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Holt High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Holt Elementary School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.4%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Holt Elementary School has declined 17%, going from 543 students in 2018 to 448 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

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