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Priceville Elementary School
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Alabama's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Priceville Elementary School
Priceville Elementary School operates as a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Priceville, Alabama, overseen by Morgan County. Current enrollment sits at 674 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 480 students per school, that is 40% bigger than typical.
Morgan County runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 7,619 students. Priceville Elementary School is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Priceville Elementary School shows that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Priceville Elementary School logs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Morgan County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Priceville Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.3%; this one delivers 67.5%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Morgan County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,845, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Priceville Elementary School is one of 46 public schools in Morgan County (combined enrollment of about 20,204 students).
The closest other public school is Priceville Junior High School, roughly 1.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Priceville Elementary School at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 33.8%.
Priceville Elementary School operates from a residential location.
Looking at the recent track record. Priceville Elementary School's enrollment has rose 6% since 2018, when it stood at 638 (now 674). White enrollment moved from 91% to 85% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.
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