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Mulkey Elementary School
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Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Mulkey Elementary School
Located at 800 W Meadow Ave, in Geneva, Alabama, Mulkey Elementary School is a medium-sized K-5 school that serves 562 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Geneva City.
Geneva City runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,229 students. Mulkey Elementary School is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Mulkey Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. Other groups include 8% Black, 8% multiracial, 4% Hispanic.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mulkey Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.7%; this one delivers 61.8%.
Zooming out to the county, Geneva County reports that median household earnings sit near $52,771, about 13% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Geneva County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,043 students), of which Mulkey Elementary School is one.
The closest other public school is Geneva High School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mulkey Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 32.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a rural area.
Over the past 7-year window. Mulkey Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 608 (now 562). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 13% to 8%.
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