Princeton School

Princeton School, a modestly sized K-5 school in Birmingham, Alabama, part of Birmingham City, teaches 195 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so Princeton School sits 59% leaner than that benchmark.

Birmingham City runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 20,954 students. Princeton School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Princeton School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (99%). That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Princeton School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 43.7%; this one delivers 76.3%, a residual of +32.6 points.

In the surrounding community, Jefferson County reports that median household income runs about $66,388, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Jefferson County runs 181 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students), of which Princeton School is one.

Hemphill Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Princeton School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Princeton School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 38.8%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Princeton School has declined 23%, going from 254 students in 2018 to 195 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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