Parrish ElementaryMiddle School

Parrish ElementaryMiddle School, a close-knit K-5 school in Parrish, Alabama, overseen by Walker County, enrolls 288 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 40% smaller than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 480 students.

Parrish ElementaryMiddle School is one of 17 schools operated by Walker County, a district that serves 7,091 students overall.

Demographically, Parrish ElementaryMiddle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). Beyond that, the school records 9% Black, 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Parrish ElementaryMiddle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.3%, the actual is 44.9%, a residual of +5.6 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Walker County shows median household income runs about $56,509, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Walker County's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,041 students), Parrish ElementaryMiddle School is one campus in the mix.

Cordova High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Parrish ElementaryMiddle School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 36.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Parrish ElementaryMiddle School has rose 33%, going from 217 students in 2018 to 288 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 1% to 7% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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