Rainbow Elementary School

Rainbow Elementary School is an elementary-level community of sprawling scale in Madison, Alabama, run under Madison City, instructing 725 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 51% above the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 480 students.

Rainbow Elementary School is one of 13 schools operated by Madison City, a district that works with 13,046 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Rainbow Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 16% Black, 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Madison County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Rainbow Elementary School shows 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Rainbow Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 26% of students at Rainbow Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Madison County's rate of about 41%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rainbow Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.9%; this one delivers 72.6%.

In the area at large, census data for Madison County shows median household income runs about $86,499, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Madison County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), of which Rainbow Elementary School is one.

Discovery Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rainbow Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Rainbow Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 37.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 17%: 872 students in 2018 compared to 725 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 10% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.