Mountain Brook Elementary School

Mountain Brook Elementary School is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in Mountain Brook, Alabama, one of the schools within Mountain Brook City, with 551 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.

Mountain Brook City runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 4,425 students. Mountain Brook Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Mountain Brook Elementary School records that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 3% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Mountain Brook Elementary School logs 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Mountain Brook Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 2% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Jefferson County's rate of about 52%.

With demographic context factored in, Mountain Brook Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 82.5%; this one delivers 87.8%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) shows that median household income runs about $66,388, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Jefferson County runs 181 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students), of which Mountain Brook Elementary School is one.

Shades Cahaba Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mountain Brook Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mountain Brook Elementary School at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 36.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 9%: 504 students in 2018 compared to 551 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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