Oliver K5 School

Oliver K5 School, a close-knit primary school in Birmingham, Alabama, one of the schools within Birmingham City, educates 343 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 29% leaner than the state mean of about 480.

Across the 43 schools in Birmingham City (20,954 students total), Oliver K5 School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Oliver K5 School logs that 96% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest breaks down as 3% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Jefferson County's rate of about 52%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Oliver K5 School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.7%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $66,388 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Jefferson County's 181 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students), Oliver K5 School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WE Putnam Middle SchoolMagnet, around 1.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Oliver K5 School at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 39.6%.

Oliver K5 School operates from an urban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Oliver K5 School's enrollment has ticked down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 452 (now 343). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 today.

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