Maryvale Elementary School

Maryvale Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary campus in Mobile, Alabama, part of Mobile County. The school works with 475 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Mobile County runs 85 schools in total, collectively educating 49,946 students. Maryvale Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Maryvale Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (88%). The remainder breaks down as 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Maryvale Elementary School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Maryvale Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Mobile County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Maryvale Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.1%, the actual is 25.5%, a residual of +6.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Mobile County put the typical household earns roughly $58,880 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Maryvale Elementary School is one of 107 public schools in Mobile County (combined enrollment of about 59,070 students).

Nearest neighbor: George Hall Elementary School, around 1.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Maryvale Elementary School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.0%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 3%: 460 students in 2018 compared to 475 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 94% to 88%. Class-load math has widened: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

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