Morningside Elementary School

Set in Mobile, Alabama, Morningside Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, part of Mobile County. It caters to 480 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Mobile County runs 85 schools in total, collectively educating 49,946 students. Morningside Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Morningside Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (87%). Other groups include 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 2% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Mobile County's rate of about 67%.

With demographic context factored in, Morningside Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.0%, the actual is 30.4%, a residual of +12.4 points.

Across the wider county, Mobile County reports that the typical household earns roughly $58,880 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Mobile County's 107 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,070 students), Morningside Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

EicholdMertz School of Math and Science is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Morningside Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 35.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 478 students in 2018 compared to 480 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 95% to 87% over that span.

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