James Dawson Elementary

James Dawson Elementary operates as a mid-sized primary school in Huntsville, Alabama, run under Huntsville City. Current enrollment sits at 447 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 44 schools in Huntsville City (24,222 students total), James Dawson Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, James Dawson Elementary logs that Black students make up the majority at 70%. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 6% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Madison County as a whole is about 24% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Madison County's rate of about 41%.

After controlling for student poverty, James Dawson Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.4%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Madison County indicate median household earnings sit near $86,499, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Madison County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), of which James Dawson Elementary is one.

Academy for Academics and Arts Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, James Dawson Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 39.9%.

James Dawson Elementary operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. James Dawson Elementary's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 447 (now 447). The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 81% to 70% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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