Lakewood Elementary School

As an intimate elementary campus in Huntsville, Alabama, Lakewood Elementary School educates 397 students from grades pre-K through 6, run under Huntsville City.

Huntsville City runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 24,222 students. Lakewood Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Lakewood Elementary School records that the largest single group is Black, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 6% White. 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, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Madison County's rate of about 41%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lakewood Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.4%, the actual is 22.6%, a residual of -6.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Madison County) records that the typical household earns roughly $86,499 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Madison County's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), Lakewood Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Academy For Science Foreign Language Middle School, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lakewood Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Lakewood Elementary School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.7%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Lakewood Elementary School's enrollment has fell 17% since 2018, when it stood at 479 (now 397). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 78% to 62%.

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