Southview Primary School

Southview Primary School is one of the medium-sized elementary schools in Opelika, Alabama, operated by Opelika City, with 480 students on its rolls from grades K through 2.

Opelika City comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,377 students; Southview Primary School is among them.

Demographically, Southview Primary School reports that 43% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 36% White, 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Southview Primary School lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.2:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 65% of students at Southview Primary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Lee County's rate of about 48%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Lee County) logs that median household earnings sit near $65,824, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lee County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,812 students), of which Southview Primary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Carver Primary School, around 1.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Southview Primary School has expanded 9%, going from 439 students in 2018 to 480 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 4% to 14% over that span.

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