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What's something Morningside Elementary School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
480
Elementary
DISTRICT 483 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOBILE COUNTY·NCES 010237000940
Morningside Elementary School
2700 Greenbrier Dr South, Mobile, AL 36605 · (251) 221-1540 · Mobile County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL480 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
436 students
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 58%
Community
6
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 | 7 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (79).
Student demographics
24%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
39.6%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
26.9%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 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
30.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
18.0%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 18% 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 Morningside Elementary School
Morningside Elementary School's state test result (30.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morningside Elementary School this school | 480 | 90.8% | 30.4% |
| Maryvale Elementary School Mobile | 475 | 89.3% | 25.5% |
| ChastangFournier Middle School Mobile | 503 | 91.3% | 18.7% |
| SpencerWestlawn Elementary School Mobile | 428 | 90.2% | 36.3% |
| Forest Hill Elementary School Mobile | 478 | 88.1% | 36.0% |
| John Will Elementary School Mobile | 549 | 88.7% | 22.0% |
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 Morningside Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Mobile County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.4% | #507 of 626 | #41 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.9% | #438 of 626 | #32 of 52 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.6% | #552 of 626 | #44 of 52 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 480 | #326 of 709 | #31 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.3:1 | #479 of 655 | #23 of 56 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 23.6% | #542 of 658 | #40 of 56 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.8% | #9 of 696 | #5 of 56 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.4% | #259 of 262 | #20 of 21 |
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
480
+34 (+8%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 608
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
was 22.3:1
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 | 480 | 26.3 | 18.3:1 | 91% (436) |
| 2023-24 | 487 | 26 | 18.7:1 | 96% (467) |
| 2022-23 | 455 | 23.3 | 19.5:1 | 98% (446) |
| 2020-21 | 446 | 20 | 22.3:1 | 98% (435) |
| 2017-18 | 478 | 26.3 | 18.2:1 | 98% (468) |
| 2015-16 | 536 | 26 | 20.6:1 | 86% (460) |
| 2010-11 | 412 | 26 | 15.8:1 | 97% (398) |
| 2000-01 | 508 | 35 | 14.5:1 | 91% (461) |
| 1990-91 | 608 | 34 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Morningside Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (478 to 480); teachers unchanged (26.3 to 26.3).
About Morningside Elementary School
Morningside Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Mobile, Alabama, under Mobile County. In all, 480 students attend the school in pre-K through 5.
Mobile County counts 49,946 students in its 85 schools, and Morningside Elementary School is one of them.
The share of Black students at Morningside Elementary School is 87%. The remaining shares are 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, and 2% White. Mobile County as a whole is about 36% Black, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Morningside Elementary School scores 24%.
On staff are 26.3 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 18.3:1. Elementary schools in Alabama average 17.0:1, 1.3 fewer students per teacher than here. Morningside Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 91%. Public schools in Mobile County average 67%.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Morningside Elementary School, the prediction is 18.0% and the result is 30.4%.
For Mobile County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $58,880, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 26%, and about 12% of people live in poverty. There are 107 public schools in the county, enrolling about 59,070, Morningside Elementary School among them.
Morningside Elementary School's nearest public school is EicholdMertz School of Math and Science (about 1.6 miles). There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Morningside Elementary School ranks 5th on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Mid-size, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
An 8% rise took enrollment from 446 in 2020-21 to 480 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 22.3:1 to 18.3:1.
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Mobile County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
412,590
Census ACS
Median income
$58,880
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
107
59,070 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Mobile County
- Baker High SchoolHigh · 2,271 students
- Mary G Montgomery High SchoolHigh · 1,888 students
- Alma Bryant High SchoolHigh · 1,624 students
- WP Davidson High SchoolHigh · 1,470 students
- Bernice J Causey Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,339 students
- Theodore High SchoolHigh · 1,218 students
Other schools in Mobile
- Baker High SchoolHigh · 2,271 students
- WP Davidson High SchoolHigh · 1,470 students
- Bernice J Causey Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,339 students
- Murphy High SchoolHigh · 1,212 students
- ER Dickson Elementary SchoolElementary · 967 students
- Lillie B Williamson High SchoolHigh · 889 students
Other Morningside Elementary schools
15 other US public schools in 10 states are named Morningside Elementary. Morningside Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 16.
- Morningside Elementary SchoolAtlanta, GA · 722 students
- Morningside Elementary SchoolNEW BRAUNFELS, TX · 665 students
- MORNINGSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPORT ST LUCIE, FL · 653 students
- Morningside ElementarySioux City, IA · 645 students
- Morningside Elementary SchoolPerry, GA · 488 students
Nearby schools
- EicholdMertz School of Math and Science1.6 mi · 504
- HL Sonny Callahan School for the Deaf and Blind1.7 mi · 45
- Kate Shepard Elementary School1.8 mi · 576
- Maryvale Elementary School1.8 mi · 475
- Pillans Middle School1.8 mi · 440
- Elizabeth Fonde Elementary School1.9 mi · 663
Frequently asked questions
About Morningside Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Morningside Elementary School?
Morningside Elementary School enrolls approximately 480 students in grades PK-05.
Is Morningside Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Morningside Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Morningside Elementary School have?
Morningside Elementary School employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Morningside Elementary School?
Student demographics at Morningside Elementary School are roughly 2% White, 5% Hispanic, 87% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Morningside Elementary School in?
Morningside Elementary School is part of Mobile County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.