Laceys Spring Elementary School

Laceys Spring Elementary School is an elementary campus of intimate scale in Laceys Spring, Alabama, one of the schools within Morgan County, teacheing 277 students in grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 480 students per school, that is 42% smaller than typical.

Morgan County runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 7,619 students. Laceys Spring Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Laceys Spring Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 33% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the resource side, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Laceys Spring Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Morgan County's rate of about 56%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Laceys Spring Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.5%, the actual is 41.9%, a residual of +11.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Morgan County shows median household income runs about $68,845, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Morgan County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,204 students), of which Laceys Spring Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Union Hill School, around 4.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Laceys Spring Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 36.5%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Laceys Spring Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 315 (now 277). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 75% to 64%.

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