Mount Olive Elementary School

Located at 1301 Brookside Rd, in Mount Olive, Alabama, Mount Olive Elementary School is a small K-5 school that works with 286 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Jefferson County. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so Mount Olive Elementary School sits 40% leaner than that benchmark.

Jefferson County runs 55 schools in total, collectively educating 35,444 students. Mount Olive Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Mount Olive Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Other groups include 6% Black, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Mount Olive Elementary School logs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 29% of students at Mount Olive Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mount Olive Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.9%, the actual is 55.4%, a residual of -7.4 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate median household earnings sit near $66,388, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Mount Olive Elementary School is one of 181 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students).

The closest other public school is Snow Rogers Elementary School, roughly 3.6 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mount Olive Elementary School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 35.9%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Mount Olive Elementary School's enrollment has declined 9% since 2018, when it stood at 316 (now 286). White enrollment moved from 93% to 85% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Mount Olive Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.