Oak Mountain Elementary School

Set in Birmingham, Alabama, Oak Mountain Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary school, operated by Shelby County. It instructs 675 students across grades pre-K through 3. That puts it 41% bigger than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 480 students.

Within Shelby County, which oversees 29 schools and 20,638 students, Oak Mountain Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Oak Mountain Elementary School logs that 76% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 9% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% Asian. Compared to Shelby County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Around 22% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Shelby County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Oak Mountain Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.8%; this one delivers 79.4%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Shelby County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,961 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Shelby County's 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,120 students), Oak Mountain Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Oak Mountain Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Oak Mountain Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 35.6%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oak Mountain Elementary School has fell 7%, going from 729 students in 2018 to 675 in 2025.

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