Meadowview Elementary School

Meadowview Elementary School operates as a modestly sized primary school in Selma, Alabama, operated by Selma City. Current enrollment sits at 334 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 480 students per school, that is 30% smaller than typical.

Selma City comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 2,301 students; Meadowview Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Meadowview Elementary School shows that nearly all students (90%) are Black; the rest breaks down as 5% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 70% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.7:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Meadowview Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.5%, the actual is 34.0%, a residual of +5.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Dallas County shows median household earnings sit near $35,627, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 26% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Meadowview Elementary School is one of 23 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 4,584 students).

The closest other public school is The RBHudson STEAM Academy, roughly 2.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Meadowview Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 18%: 282 students in 2018 compared to 334 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 18% to 5%. Class-load math has loosened: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 in 2025.

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