Selma Street Elementary School

Selma Street Elementary School operates as an average-sized primary school in Dothan, Alabama, overseen by Dothan City. Current enrollment sits at 421 students spanning grades K through 5.

Dothan City comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 8,220 students; Selma Street Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Selma Street Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Black, at 69% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 14% Hispanic, 10% White, 6% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Selma Street Elementary School has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Selma Street Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Houston County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Selma Street Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Alabama schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 22.2%; actual is 39.6%, +17.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Houston County reports that median household income runs about $58,626, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Houston County's 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,127 students), Selma Street Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Heard Elementary School, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Selma Street Elementary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 10%: 469 students in 2018 compared to 421 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 80% to 69% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 today.

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