Northport Elementary School

Northport Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school with its address in Northport, Alabama. It enrolls 558 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 2.

Tuscaloosa County enrolls 19,278 students, and its 35 schools include Northport Elementary School.

More than half of the students at Northport Elementary School are White (78%). Smaller groups are 10% Hispanic, 8% Black, and 2% multiracial. In Tuscaloosa County overall, about 60% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Northport Elementary School scores 37%.

Teacher count: 38 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 14.7:1. The gap from the 17.0:1 average for elementary schools in Alabama is 2.3 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 31%. That is 23 points below the 54% average for public schools in Tuscaloosa County.

In Tuscaloosa County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $66,231, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 32%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. The county has 58 public schools and about 30,508 students.

Northport Intermediate School, about 0.1 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, 4 other public schools are within five miles.

The NCES locale for Northport Elementary School is Suburb: Mid-size, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

The school's size has been steady, with 567 students in 2020-21 and 558 in 2024-25. Students per teacher dropped from 15.8 in 2020-21 to 14.7 in 2024-25.

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