Saraland Elementary School

Set in Saraland, Alabama, Saraland Elementary School is a large primary school, one of the schools within Saraland City. It hosts 1,034 students across grades 2 through 5. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so Saraland Elementary School sits 115% above that benchmark.

Saraland City comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 3,514 students; Saraland Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Saraland Elementary School logs that 73% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 17% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Mobile County as a whole is about 56% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Mobile County (around 67%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Saraland Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 47.2%; this one delivers 79.8%, a residual of +32.6 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Mobile County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $58,880 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Saraland Elementary School is one of 107 public schools in Mobile County (combined enrollment of about 59,070 students).

Nearest neighbor: Saraland High School, around 1.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Saraland Elementary School at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 35.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Saraland Elementary School has grew 18%, going from 878 students in 2018 to 1,034 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.