Kitty Stone Elementary School

Kitty Stone Elementary School, a high-enrollment primary school in Jacksonville, Alabama, operated by Jacksonville City, hosts 929 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so Kitty Stone Elementary School sits 94% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in Jacksonville City (1,685 students total), Kitty Stone Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Kitty Stone Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 30% Black, 15% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Kitty Stone Elementary School has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kitty Stone Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.5%.

Across the wider county, Calhoun County reports that the typical household earns roughly $55,029 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Calhoun County's 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,686 students), Kitty Stone Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Jacksonville High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Kitty Stone Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Kitty Stone Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 35.8%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Kitty Stone Elementary School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 912 (now 929). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 61% to 47%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 today.

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