Meadow View Elementary School

Set in Alabaster, Alabama, Meadow View Elementary School is a well-populated elementary campus, run under Alabaster City. It educates 953 students across grades pre-K through 3. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so Meadow View Elementary School sits 99% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 5 schools in Alabaster City (6,316 students total), Meadow View Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Meadow View Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 20% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Meadow View Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 53% of students at Meadow View Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Shelby County (around 42%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Meadow View 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 45.3%; Meadow View Elementary School posts 70.6%, +25.3 points above that line.

In the area at large, Shelby County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,961, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Shelby County runs 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,120 students), of which Meadow View Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Calera Middle, roughly 2.6 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Meadow View Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.2%.

Meadow View Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Meadow View Elementary School's enrollment has climbed 12% since 2018, when it stood at 852 (now 953). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 53% to 47% over that span.

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