Meadowlane Elementary School

Meadowlane Elementary School is a minimally staffed elementary school in Phenix City, Alabama, overseen by Phenix City. The school instructs 155 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 68% leaner than the state mean of about 480.

Within Phenix City, which oversees 11 schools and 7,198 students, Meadowlane Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Meadowlane Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (86%). The remainder looks like 6% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 46%.

On the resource side, The school employs 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Meadowlane Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Russell County (around 56%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Meadowlane Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.5%, the actual is 35.4%, a residual of +11.9 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Russell County put median household earnings sit near $51,197, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. In all, Russell County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,127 students), of which Meadowlane Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: South Girard School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Meadowlane Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 26.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Meadowlane Elementary School has declined 25%, going from 207 students in 2018 to 155 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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