Oak Park Elementary School

Oak Park Elementary School is a reasonably sized primary school in Decatur, Alabama, one of the schools within Decatur City. The school works with 481 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Decatur City runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 8,902 students. Oak Park Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Oak Park Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 28% Black, 16% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Morgan County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Oak Park Elementary School logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Oak Park Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Morgan County's rate of about 56%.

With demographic context factored in, Oak Park Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 20.5%, a residual of -11.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Morgan County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,845, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Morgan County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,204 students), Oak Park Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Decatur High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Oak Park Elementary School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 35.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 22%: 393 students in 2018 compared to 481 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 40% to 49%.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.