Red Bay Elementary

Red Bay Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Red Bay, Alabama, run under Franklin County, teaches 410 students, covering grades pre-K through 6.

Franklin County comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,563 students; Red Bay Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Red Bay Elementary reports that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Franklin County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Franklin County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Red Bay Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.0%; this one delivers 59.0%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Franklin County put the typical household earns roughly $53,338 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Red Bay Elementary is one of 15 public schools in Franklin County (combined enrollment of about 6,178 students).

The closest other public school is Red Bay High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Red Bay Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 50.3%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.