Mitchell Elementary School

Mitchell Elementary School is a compact elementary campus in Gadsden, Alabama, overseen by Gadsden City. The school hosts 262 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so Mitchell Elementary School sits 45% smaller than that benchmark.

Gadsden City runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 4,940 students. Mitchell Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Mitchell Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 19% Black, 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Etowah County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Mitchell Elementary School has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Roughly 59% of students at Mitchell Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mitchell 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 41.0%; Mitchell Elementary School posts 60.5%, +19.5 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, Etowah County reports that the typical household earns roughly $54,563 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Mitchell Elementary School is one of 42 public schools in Etowah County (combined enrollment of about 15,139 students).

The closest other public school is Floyd Elementary School, roughly 1.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mitchell Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mitchell Elementary School at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 34.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 26%: 353 students in 2018 compared to 262 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 68% to 62% across the same window.

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