Rehobeth Primary School

Set in Dothan, Alabama, Rehobeth Primary School is a heavily attended K-5 school, operated by Houston County. It instructs 761 students across grades pre-K through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 59% above the state mean of about 480.

Rehobeth Primary School is one of 14 schools operated by Houston County, a district that educates 6,907 students overall.

On demographics, Rehobeth Primary School logs that White students make up the majority at 68%. The remainder comes out to 14% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Houston County as a whole.

On the resource side, Rehobeth Primary School shows 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Houston County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rehobeth Primary School sits in the top 10% of Alabama schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 45.9%; actual is 75.3%, +29.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, census data for Houston County shows median household earnings sit near $58,626, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Houston County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,127 students), of which Rehobeth Primary School is one.

Rehobeth Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rehobeth Primary School at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 34.9%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

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