R E Thompson Intermediate School

As an intimate primary school in Tuscumbia, Alabama, R E Thompson Intermediate School enrolls 360 students from grades 3 through 5, overseen by Tuscumbia City. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so R E Thompson Intermediate School sits 25% leaner than that benchmark.

Tuscumbia City comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,597 students; R E Thompson Intermediate School is among them.

Demographically, R E Thompson Intermediate School lists that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 25% Black, 9% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Colbert County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, R E Thompson Intermediate School reports 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, R E Thompson Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.4%, the actual is 55.2%, a residual of +11.8 points.

Around the school, Colbert County reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,628 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. R E Thompson Intermediate School is one of 25 public schools in Colbert County (combined enrollment of about 8,178 students).

The closest other public school is G W Trenholm Primary School, roughly 1.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, R E Thompson Intermediate School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.2%.

R E Thompson Intermediate School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 6%: 341 students in 2018 compared to 360 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 68% to 61%. Class-load math has fell: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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