Southside Elementary School

Southside Elementary School is a mid-sized K-5 school in Southside, Alabama, operated by Etowah County. The school enrolls 585 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 22% bigger than the state mean of about 480.

Etowah County runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 8,739 students. Southside Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Southside Elementary School reports that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 5% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Etowah County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Southside Elementary School has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 32% of students at Southside Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Etowah County's rate of about 58%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Southside Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.8%; this one delivers 69.2%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Etowah County indicate median household earnings sit near $54,563, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Etowah County runs 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,139 students), of which Southside Elementary School is one.

Southside High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Southside Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 36.6%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Southside Elementary School's enrollment has grew 7% since 2018, when it stood at 549 (now 585). The White share of enrollment edged down from 95% to 87% over that span.

On the community side, members of the Southside Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.