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Lineville Elementary School
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 35% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Alabama's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Lineville Elementary School
Lineville Elementary School is one of the middle-of-the-pack primary schools in Lineville, Alabama, operated by Clay County, with 459 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.
Clay County comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,729 students; Lineville Elementary School is among them.
Looking at the student body, Lineville Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment; the rest consists of 16% Black, 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Lineville Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 68% of students at Lineville Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
After controlling for student poverty, Lineville Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 34.6%; Lineville Elementary School posts 53.3%, +18.7 points above that line.
In the area at large, Clay County reports that median household earnings sit near $55,250, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Clay County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,729 students), of which Lineville Elementary School is one.
The closest other public school is Central High School of Clay County, roughly 2.2 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lineville Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 36.7%.
Lineville Elementary School operates from a rural location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Lineville Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 12% since 2018, when it stood at 520 (now 459). Black enrollment moved from 20% to 16% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.
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