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Enrollment
421
Elementary
DISTRICT 395 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOTHAN CITY·NCES 010123000454
Selma Street Elementary School
1501 W Selma St, Dothan, AL 36301 · (334) 794-1463 · Houston County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL421 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 51% of Alabama public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Alabama public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
20.1:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.8:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
358 students
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 58%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 83 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (83) is 89% larger than its 5th grade class (44).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Selma Street Elementary School→Dothan 6th Grade Center
Based on grade levels within Dothan City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
50.6%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
31.7%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
Source: ACAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of AL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
39.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.2%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 22% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Alabama's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Selma Street Elementary School
Selma Street Elementary School's state test result (39.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Selma Street Elementary School this school | 421 | 85.0% | 39.6% |
| Morris Slingluff Elementary School Dothan | 381 | 84.5% | 23.3% |
| Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School Huntsville | 458 | 79.9% | 19.4% |
| Mary W Burroughs Elementary School Theodore | 404 | 80.7% | 26.1% |
| Nixon Elementary School Montgomery | 476 | 83.6% | 18.9% |
| Flowers Elementary School Montgomery | 387 | 83.5% | 30.1% |
Matched among Alabama elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Selma Street Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Houston County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.6% | #418 of 626 | #8 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.7% | #389 of 626 | #8 of 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.6% | #459 of 626 | #9 of 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 421 | #415 of 709 | #9 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.1:1 | #598 of 655 | #13 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.0% | #316 of 658 | #9 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.0% | #44 of 696 | #2 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.2% | #203 of 364 | #3 of 9 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
421
+21 (+5%) vs 2020
+9% since 1990-91, when it was 387
Student : Teacher
20.1:1
was 13.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 421 | 21 | 20.1:1 | 85% (358) |
| 2023-24 | 406 | 25 | 16.2:1 | 92% (375) |
| 2022-23 | 413 | 26 | 15.9:1 | 93% (383) |
| 2020-21 | 400 | 29 | 13.8:1 | 94% (375) |
| 2017-18 | 469 | 26 | 18.0:1 | 95% (446) |
| 2015-16 | 497 | 27 | 18.4:1 | 93% (460) |
| 2010-11 | 478 | 29 | 16.5:1 | 87% (418) |
| 2000-01 | 345 | 27 | 12.8:1 | 76% (261) |
| 1990-91 | 387 | 22 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Selma Street Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (469 to 421); teachers down 19% (26 to 21).
About Selma Street Elementary School
Selma Street Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Dothan City, located in Dothan, Alabama. Enrollment stands at 421 students, covering kindergarten through 5.
Dothan City enrolls 8,220 students, and its 16 schools include Selma Street Elementary School.
About 69% of the student body at Selma Street Elementary School is Black. The remaining students are 14% Hispanic, 10% White, and 6% multiracial. Among people living in Houston County, the Black share is about 27%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 49, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Selma Street Elementary School is 20.1:1, based on 21 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Alabama, 17.0:1, is lower. Selma Street Elementary School counts 85% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Houston County is 63%.
Among Alabama public elementary schools, Selma Street Elementary School outscored 51%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
Selma Street Elementary School is a top-10% school in Alabama on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results of 22.2% with an actual 39.6%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Houston County show that the median household earns about $58,626 a year, about 23% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. Across Houston County, 35 public schools serve about 15,127 students.
Selma Street Elementary School is about 1.1 miles from Heard Elementary School, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 6 nearby schools with scores, Selma Street Elementary School ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Selma Street Elementary School the locale City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Federal enrollment counts increased from 400 (2020-21) to 421 (2024-25). From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 13.8:1 to 20.1:1.
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Houston County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
108,140
Census ACS
Median income
$58,626
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
35
15,127 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Dothan City
- Dothan High SchoolHigh · 1,588 students
- Dothan Preparatory AcademyMiddle · 1,034 students
- Carver 9th Grade AcademyHigh · 583 students
- Kelly Springs Elementary SchoolElementary · 516 students
- Highlands Elementary SchoolElementary · 501 students
- Hidden Lake Primary SchoolElementary · 476 students
Other schools in Dothan
- Dothan High SchoolHigh · 1,588 students
- Dothan Preparatory AcademyMiddle · 1,034 students
- Rehobeth High SchoolHigh · 786 students
- Rehobeth Primary SchoolElementary · 761 students
- Carver 9th Grade AcademyHigh · 583 students
- Kelly Springs Elementary SchoolElementary · 516 students
Nearby schools
- Heard Elementary School1.1 mi · 389
- Dothan City Virtual School1.1 mi · 226
- Dothan Preparatory Academy1.2 mi · 1,034
- Dothan City Early Education Center1.2 mi · 183
- Houston County Virtual Academy1.4 mi · 246
- Carver School of Mathematics Science and Technology1.6 mi · 429
Frequently asked questions
About Selma Street Elementary SchoolHow large is Selma Street Elementary School?
Selma Street Elementary School enrolls approximately 421 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Selma Street Elementary School serve?
Selma Street Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Selma Street Elementary School have?
Selma Street Elementary School employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Selma Street Elementary School?
Student demographics at Selma Street Elementary School are roughly 10% White, 14% Hispanic, 69% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Selma Street Elementary School?
Selma Street Elementary School is overseen by Dothan City in Houston County.
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