Nan Gray Davis Elementary School

Located at 6900 Nan Gray Davis Rd, in Theodore, Alabama, Nan Gray Davis Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary-level community that hosts 499 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Mobile County.

Within Mobile County, which oversees 85 schools and 49,946 students, Nan Gray Davis Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Nan Gray Davis Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 30% Black, 11% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Mobile County as a whole is about 56% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Nan Gray Davis Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.3%, the actual is 43.6%, a residual of +11.4 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Mobile County shows 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. In all, Mobile County runs 107 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,070 students), of which Nan Gray Davis Elementary School is one.

Theodore High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Nan Gray Davis Elementary School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 35.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 8%: 542 students in 2018 compared to 499 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 60% to 46% across the same window.

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