Locust Fork Elementary

Locust Fork Elementary is one of the mid-sized elementary campuss in Locust Fork, Alabama, run under Blount County, with 534 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.

Blount County runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 7,600 students. Locust Fork Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Locust Fork Elementary shows that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 10% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Locust Fork Elementary records 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.5:1. The state averages about 17.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Locust Fork Elementary 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 47.2%; Locust Fork Elementary posts 72.5%, +25.3 points above that line.

In the broader community, census data for Blount County shows the typical household earns roughly $64,190 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Blount County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,980 students), of which Locust Fork Elementary is one.

Locust Fork High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Locust Fork Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 36.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Locust Fork Elementary's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 523 (now 534). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 5% to 10% over that span.

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