Minor Elementary School

Minor Elementary School, a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Birmingham, Alabama, overseen by Birmingham City, serves 441 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within Birmingham City, which oversees 43 schools and 20,954 students, Minor Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Minor Elementary School lists that nearly all students (89%) are Black. Beyond that, the school logs 9% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 42% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Jefferson County (around 52%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Minor Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 22.4%.

In the broader community, census data for Jefferson County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,388 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Minor Elementary School is one of 181 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students).

The closest other public school is JacksonOlin High School, roughly 1.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Minor Elementary School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 42.0%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Minor Elementary School has contracted 3%, going from 455 students in 2018 to 441 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 96% to 89% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 in 2025.

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