Legacy Prep

Legacy Prep is a primary school of tight-knit scale in Birmingham, Alabama, operated by Legacy Prep, enrolling 317 students in grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 480 students per school, that is 34% below typical.

Legacy Prep comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 536 students; Legacy Prep is among them.

On demographics, Legacy Prep lists that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Roughly 77% of students at Legacy Prep qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Jefferson County's rate of about 52%.

With demographic context factored in, Legacy Prep sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.8%; this one delivers 34.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) logs that median household earnings sit near $66,388, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Jefferson County runs 181 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students), of which Legacy Prep is one.

The closest other public school is South Hampton K8, roughly 1.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Legacy Prep comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. Legacy Prep is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

On the community side, members of the Legacy Prep community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.