Iola Roberts Elementary School

Iola Roberts Elementary School operates as an intimate elementary school in Pell City, Alabama, one of the schools within Pell City. Current enrollment sits at 402 students spanning grades K through 4.

Within Pell City, which oversees 8 schools and 4,079 students, Iola Roberts Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Iola Roberts Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 69%. The remainder looks like 17% Black, 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against St. Clair County (around 49%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Iola Roberts Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 30.7%; Iola Roberts Elementary School posts 61.0%, +30.4 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (St. Clair County) logs that median household income runs about $77,463, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Iola Roberts Elementary School is one of 29 public schools in St. Clair County (combined enrollment of about 13,737 students).

The closest other public school is Pell City High School, roughly 1.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Iola Roberts Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 35.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Looking at the recent track record. Iola Roberts Elementary School's enrollment has grew 6% since 2018, when it stood at 380 (now 402). White enrollment moved from 76% to 69% across the same window.

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