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Does Rainbow Elementary School have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
725
Elementary
DISTRICT 722 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MADISON CITY·NCES 010000801485
Rainbow Elementary School
50 Nance Rd, Madison, AL 35758 · (256) 824-8106 · Madison County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL725 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 78% of Alabama public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Alabama public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.4:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
190 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 58%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 107 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 124 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 117 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 132 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 114 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 131 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (107) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (131).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
84.4%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
66.3%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
Source: ACAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
72.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.9%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Rainbow Elementary School
Rainbow Elementary School's state test result (72.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow Elementary School this school | 725 | 26.2% | 72.6% |
| Pike Road Elementary School Pike Road | 888 | 22.5% | 66.1% |
| Oak Mountain Elementary School Birmingham | 675 | 22.2% | 79.4% |
| Oak Mountain Intermediate School Birmingham | 636 | 28.3% | 73.8% |
| Horizon Elementary School Madison | 567 | 33.3% | 72.8% |
| MidTown Elementary School Madison | 1,097 | 28.9% | 70.9% |
Matched among Alabama elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Rainbow Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Madison County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.6% | #67 of 626 | #7 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.3% | #72 of 626 | #9 of 48 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 84.4% | #55 of 626 | #6 of 48 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 725 | #91 of 709 | #9 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #134 of 655 | #5 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.8% | #155 of 658 | #24 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.2% | #655 of 696 | #43 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.9% | #122 of 364 | #13 of 29 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
725
-147 (-17%) vs 2020
+4% since 2010-11, when it was 694
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 16.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 725 | 47 | 15.4:1 | 26% (190) |
| 2023-24 | 767 | 46.5 | 16.5:1 | 25% (195) |
| 2022-23 | 926 | 52.3 | 17.7:1 | 18% (166) |
| 2020-21 | 872 | 54 | 16.1:1 | 6% (54) |
| 2017-18 | 872 | 47.5 | 18.4:1 | 21% (183) |
| 2015-16 | 816 | 43 | 19.0:1 | 21% (175) |
| 2010-11 | 694 | 47 | 14.8:1 | 17% (119) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rainbow Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (872 to 725); teachers down 1% (47.5 to 47).
About Rainbow Elementary School
Rainbow Elementary School is a public elementary school in Madison, Alabama. Students in kindergarten through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 725 students. Elementary schools in Alabama have about 480 students on average; enrollment here is 51% higher.
Rainbow Elementary School is a school in Madison City. The district has 13 schools and 13,046 students.
More than half of enrollment at Rainbow Elementary School is White: 60%. The next largest groups are 16% Black, 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 6% Asian. In Madison County overall, the White share is about 63%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 60%.
For every teacher at Rainbow Elementary School, there are about 15.4 students; the school has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Alabama average 17.0:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 26%. Across public schools in Madison County, the average is 41%.
Among Alabama public elementary schools, Rainbow Elementary School outscored 78%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Rainbow Elementary School is +7.7 points: 72.6% actual, 64.9% predicted.
The county, Madison County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $86,499 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Madison County has 89 public schools with about 55,800 students, including Rainbow Elementary School.
Measured in a straight line, Discovery Middle School is about 0.9 miles from Rainbow Elementary School. The five-mile area around Rainbow Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Rainbow Elementary School comes in 2nd of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school shrank from 872 students in 2020-21 to 725 in 2024-25.
This page collects posts and questions about Rainbow Elementary School, such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Madison County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
405,718
Census ACS
Median income
$86,499
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
89
55,800 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Madison City
- James Clemens High SchoolHigh · 2,159 students
- Bob Jones High SchoolHigh · 2,048 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,103 students
- MidTown Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,097 students
- Discovery Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,054 students
- Mill Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 965 students
Other schools in Madison
- James Clemens High SchoolHigh · 2,159 students
- Bob Jones High SchoolHigh · 2,048 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,103 students
- MidTown Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,097 students
- Discovery Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,054 students
- Mill Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 965 students
Other Rainbow Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Rainbow Elementary. Rainbow Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 5.
- RAINBOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWINTER SPRINGS, FL · 729 students
- Rainbow Elementary SchoolCoatesville, PA · 684 students
- Rainbow Elementary SchoolDecatur, GA · 337 students
- Rainbow Elementary SchoolCLINTON TOWNSHIP, MI · 254 students
Nearby schools
- Discovery Middle School0.9 mi · 1,054
- Columbia Elementary School2.2 mi · 701
- Providence Elementary2.2 mi · 1,152
- Bob Jones High School2.3 mi · 2,048
- Madison City School PreK Center2.3 mi · 252
- Monrovia Elementary School2.6 mi · 600
Frequently asked questions
About Rainbow Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Rainbow Elementary School?
Rainbow Elementary School enrolls approximately 725 students in grades KG-05.
Is Rainbow Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Rainbow Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Rainbow Elementary School?
Approximately 15.4:1 students per teacher at Rainbow Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Rainbow Elementary School?
Student demographics at Rainbow Elementary School are roughly 60% White, 10% Hispanic, 16% Black, 6% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Rainbow Elementary School in?
Rainbow Elementary School is part of Madison City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.