Perdido Elementary School

Located at 23589 County Road 47, in Perdido, Alabama, Perdido Elementary School is a moderately sized K-5 school that caters to 572 students (grades pre-K through 8), operated by Baldwin County.

Perdido Elementary School is one of 42 schools operated by Baldwin County, a district that teaches 31,965 students overall.

Demographically, Perdido Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%); the rest is composed of 8% multiracial, 4% Native American, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Baldwin County's rate of about 40%.

After controlling for student poverty, Perdido Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 36.3%; this one comes in at 31.7%, -4.6 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Baldwin County) reports that median household income runs about $78,775, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Baldwin County's 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,975 students), Perdido Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Rachel Patterson Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Perdido Elementary School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 44.1%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Perdido Elementary School has ticked up 13%, going from 504 students in 2018 to 572 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.