JE Terry Elementary School

JE Terry Elementary School is a rural-scale K-5 school in Plantersville, Alabama, operated by Dallas County. The school enrolls 110 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 77% leaner than the state mean of about 480.

JE Terry Elementary School is one of 11 schools operated by Dallas County, a district that caters to 2,283 students overall.

On the student-mix side, JE Terry Elementary School logs that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 37% Black, 9% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the resource side, On paper, JE Terry Elementary School has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JE Terry Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.9%, the actual is 33.6%, a residual of +11.7 points.

Across the wider county, Dallas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $35,627 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 26% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dallas County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,584 students), JE Terry Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Dallas County High School, around 0.7 miles off. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JE Terry Elementary School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JE Terry Elementary School has fell 19%, going from 136 students in 2018 to 110 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 69% to 54% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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