LEAD Academy Building A

LEAD Academy Building An is a compact elementary school in Montgomery, Alabama, operated by LEAD Academy. The school hosts 358 students in grades pre-K through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 25% below the state mean of about 480.

LEAD Academy comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 752 students; LEAD Academy Building An is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LEAD Academy Building A reports that nearly all students (90%) are Black. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 59% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, LEAD Academy Building A records 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting LEAD Academy Building A higher than the state norm the norm. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LEAD Academy Building A performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.6%, the actual is 38.3%, a residual of +10.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put median household earnings sit near $59,386, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. LEAD Academy Building An is one of 60 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 31,131 students).

The closest other public school is LEAD Academy Building B, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LEAD Academy Building A ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 36.2%.

The school occupies a downtown site. LEAD Academy Building An is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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