Opp Elementary School

Opp Elementary School is an elementary school of mid-sized scale in Opp, Alabama, run under Opp City, works with 547 students in grades pre-K through 4.

Opp City comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,322 students; Opp Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Opp Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 14% Black, 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 62% of students at Opp Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Opp Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 39.2%; Opp Elementary School posts 61.5%, +22.3 points above that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Covington County indicate the typical household earns roughly $52,456 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Covington County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,173 students), of which Opp Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Opp Middle School, roughly 1.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Opp Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Opp Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 34.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Opp Elementary School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 552 (now 547). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 19% to 14%.

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