Enrollment
334
Elementary
DISTRICT 264 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SELMA CITY·NCES 010297001157
Meadowview Elementary School
1816 Orrville Rd, Selma, AL 36701 · (334) 874-1655 · Dallas County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL334 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 30% of Alabama public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Alabama public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.7:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.4:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
255 students
DISTRICT 86% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 18 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 55 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 55 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 38 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 35 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 38 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 45% larger than its 6th grade class (38).
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 8% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Selma City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
46.3%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
31.3%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
Source: ACAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
34.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.5%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Alabama's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Meadowview Elementary School
Meadowview Elementary School's state test result (34.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meadowview Elementary School this school | 334 | 76.3% | 34.0% |
| George Washington Carver Elementary School Tuskegee | 406 | 76.6% | 35.0% |
| Choctaw County Elementary Butler | 295 | 76.9% | 20.4% |
| Legacy Prep Birmingham | 317 | 77.3% | 34.8% |
| Sophia P Kingston Elementary School Selma | 305 | 76.7% | 22.3% |
| Dozier Elementary School Montgomery | 426 | 76.5% | 27.7% |
Matched among Alabama elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Meadowview Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Dallas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #469 of 626 | #2 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.3% | #392 of 626 | #1 of 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.3% | #495 of 626 | #4 of 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 334 | #543 of 709 | #3 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.7:1 | #575 of 655 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 19.0% | #580 of 658 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.3% | #144 of 696 | #11 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +18.4% | #77 of 262 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
334
+102 (+44%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 441
Student : Teacher
19.7:1
was 17.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 334 | 16.9 | 19.7:1 | 76% (255) |
| 2023-24 | 344 | 18 | 19.1:1 | 67% (230) |
| 2022-23 | 276 | 14 | 19.7:1 | 70% (193) |
| 2020-21 | 232 | 13 | 17.9:1 | 70% (162) |
| 2017-18 | 282 | 16.5 | 17.1:1 | 70% (197) |
| 2015-16 | 292 | 16 | 18.3:1 | 58% (169) |
| 2010-11 | 279 | 18 | 15.5:1 | 59% (165) |
| 2000-01 | 231 | 18 | 12.8:1 | 45% (104) |
| 1990-91 | 441 | 21 | 21.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Meadowview Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 18% (282 to 334); teachers up 3% (16.5 to 16.9).
About Meadowview Elementary School
Meadowview Elementary School is an elementary school located in Selma, Alabama, in Dallas County. The school serves pre-K through 6. Enrollment is 334 students. Elementary schools in Alabama have about 480 students on average; enrollment here is 30% lower.
Selma City has 8 schools and 2,301 students, and Meadowview Elementary School is one of those schools.
Of every 100 students at Meadowview Elementary School, about 90 are Black. The school is also 5% White and 2% multiracial. That is higher than the 70% Black share among all Dallas County residents. A diversity index of 19% means there is a 19% chance two randomly chosen students at Meadowview Elementary School are from different groups.
Meadowview Elementary School has 16.9 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.7:1. The gap from the 17.0:1 average for elementary schools in Alabama is 2.7 students per teacher. At Meadowview Elementary School, 76% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The average for public schools in Dallas County is 85%.
Meadowview Elementary School holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 30% of Alabama public elementary schools.
Schools in Alabama with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 28.5%. Meadowview Elementary School scores 34.0%.
For Dallas County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $35,627 a year, roughly 18% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 26% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Meadowview Elementary School, Dallas County has 23 public schools.
Meadowview Elementary School is about 2.5 miles from The RBHudson STEAM Academy, its nearest public school. Meadowview Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Meadowview Elementary School at 1st of 8.
Meadowview Elementary School is coded as Town: Distant in federal locale data.
Meadowview Elementary School enrolled 232 in 2020-21 and 334 in 2024-25. Changes in grade configuration can produce shifts of this size. Its ratio of students to teachers was 17.9:1 in 2020-21, and 19.7:1 in 2024-25.
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Dallas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
36,858
Census ACS
Median income
$35,627
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
26%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
4,584 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Selma City
- Selma High SchoolHigh · 680 students
- Edgewood Elementary SchoolElementary · 402 students
- Sophia P Kingston Elementary SchoolElementary · 305 students
- The RBHudson STEAM AcademyMiddle · 279 students
- Payne Elementary SchoolElementary · 164 students
- Clark Elementary SchoolElementary · 113 students
Other schools in Selma
- Selma High SchoolHigh · 680 students
- Edgewood Elementary SchoolElementary · 402 students
- Sophia P Kingston Elementary SchoolElementary · 305 students
- Southside High SchoolHigh · 285 students
- The RBHudson STEAM AcademyMiddle · 279 students
- Brantley Elementary SchoolElementary · 204 students
Other Meadowview Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 9 states are named Meadowview Elementary. Meadowview Elementary School is the 8th largest of the 10.
- MEADOWVIEW ELEMENTARYFARMINGTON, MN · 600 students
- Meadowview Elementary SchoolMilford, OH · 577 students
- Meadowview ElementaryMeadowview, VA · 544 students
- Meadowview Elementary SchoolBossier City, LA · 440 students
- Meadowview Elementary SchoolWoodridge, IL · 416 students
Nearby schools
- The RBHudson STEAM Academy2.5 mi · 279
- Clark Elementary School2.9 mi · 113
- Payne Elementary School3.0 mi · 164
- Edgewood Elementary School3.0 mi · 402
- Saints Virtual Academy3.1 mi · 24
- Selma High School3.1 mi · 680
Frequently asked questions
About Meadowview Elementary SchoolHow large is Meadowview Elementary School?
Meadowview Elementary School enrolls approximately 334 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Meadowview Elementary School serve?
Meadowview Elementary School serves grades PK-06.
How many students per teacher at Meadowview Elementary School?
Approximately 19.7:1 students per teacher at Meadowview Elementary School.
How diverse is Meadowview Elementary School?
Meadowview Elementary School reports a student body of 5% White, 1% Hispanic, 90% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Meadowview Elementary School?
Meadowview Elementary School is overseen by Selma City in Dallas County.
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