Legacy Elementary School

Legacy Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary school in Madison, Alabama, one of the schools within Madison County. The school instructs 594 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 24% above the state mean of about 480.

Within Madison County, which oversees 28 schools and 20,691 students, Legacy Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Legacy Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 24% Black, 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Madison County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Legacy Elementary School has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Madison County's rate of about 41%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Legacy Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 62.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.1%.

In the area at large, Madison County reports that median household income runs about $86,499, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Madison County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), of which Legacy Elementary School is one.

Monrovia Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Legacy Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Legacy Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 36.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Legacy Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 17% since 2018, when it stood at 717 (now 594). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 60% to 54% over that span.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.