Jim Pearson Elementary School

Jim Pearson Elementary School operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in Alexander City, Alabama, one of the schools within Alexander City. Current enrollment sits at 704 students spanning grades pre-K through 2. Compared to the state average of about 480 students per school, that is 47% bigger than typical.

Jim Pearson Elementary School is one of 5 schools operated by Alexander City, a district that works with 2,836 students overall.

On demographics, Jim Pearson Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Black (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 40% White, 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 61% of students at Jim Pearson Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Tallapoosa County) logs that median household income runs about $59,356, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Tallapoosa County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,658 students), Jim Pearson Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Benjamin Russell High School, around 1.3 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Jim Pearson Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 14%: 816 students in 2018 compared to 704 in 2025.

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