Pine Grove Elementary School

Located at 43980 Pine Grove Rd, in Bay Minette, Alabama, Pine Grove Elementary School is a medium-sized K-5 school that serves 449 students (grades pre-K through 6), one of the schools within Baldwin County.

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

On the student-mix side, Pine Grove Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Black at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 40% White, 10% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Baldwin County as a whole is about 8% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 74% of students at Pine Grove Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Baldwin County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Pine Grove Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.9%, the actual is 37.4%, a residual of +7.4 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Baldwin County indicate median household income runs about $78,775, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Pine Grove Elementary School is one of 51 public schools in Baldwin County (combined enrollment of about 35,975 students).

The closest other public school is Bay Minette Elementary School, roughly 2.3 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pine Grove Elementary School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 34.8%.

Pine Grove Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pine Grove Elementary School has ticked down 12%, going from 513 students in 2018 to 449 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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