Howell Graves Preschool
This school has no state test results for 2023-24 or 2024-25 to grade, which is common for schools that end before third grade. How grades work
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 117 | 33% |
| Kindergarten | 239 | 67% |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 356 | 19 | 18.7:1 | 20% (71) |
| 2023-24 | 336 | 22 | 15.3:1 | 36% (120) |
| 2022-23 | 340 | 18 | 18.9:1 | 36% (124) |
| 2020-21 | 257 | 14 | 18.4:1 | 30% (78) |
| 2017-18 | 264 | 19.8 | 13.4:1 | 30% (80) |
| 2015-16 | 276 | 17 | 16.2:1 | 38% (104) |
| 2010-11 | 255 | 18 | 14.2:1 | 30% (76) |
| 2000-01 | 212 | 16 | 13.3:1 | 21% (45) |
| 1990-91 | 163 | 9 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Since 2017-18: students up 35% (264 to 356); teachers down 4% (19.8 to 19).
About Howell Graves Preschool
Federal records list Howell Graves Preschool as an elementary school in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. It is open to students in pre-K through kindergarten and enrolls 356 students. It has 26% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Alabama (about 480).
Muscle Shoals City is the local district for Howell Graves Preschool. It runs 6 schools with 2,979 students.
At Howell Graves Preschool, 67% of students are White. It is also 15% Black, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 4% Asian. For comparison, the population of Colbert County is roughly 77% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Howell Graves Preschool scores 52%.
Staffing at Howell Graves Preschool comes to 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.7:1. Elementary schools in Alabama average 17.0:1, 1.7 fewer students per teacher than here. Howell Graves Preschool counts 20% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Colbert County averages 50%, higher than here.
The county, Colbert County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $60,628, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 22% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 14%. The county's public schools total 25, with about 8,178 students.
Measured in a straight line, Muscle Shoals High School is about 0.8 miles from Howell Graves Preschool. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools.
The school's locale code, City: Small, means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
From 257 students in 2020-21, enrollment rose to 356 by 2024-25.
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