Robert E Lee Elementary

Robert E Lee Elementary operates as an expansive K-5 school in Satsuma, Alabama, overseen by Satsuma City. Current enrollment sits at 805 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so Robert E Lee Elementary sits 68% bigger than that benchmark.

Satsuma City runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 1,534 students. Robert E Lee Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Robert E Lee Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). The remainder breaks down as 7% Black, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Mobile County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Robert E Lee Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.8%, the actual is 66.3%, a residual of +15.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Mobile County put the typical household earns roughly $58,880 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Mobile County's 107 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,070 students), Robert E Lee Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Satsuma High School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Robert E Lee Elementary comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 34.7%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Robert E Lee Elementary has increased 14%, going from 705 students in 2018 to 805 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.

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