Springville Elementary School

Springville Elementary School is a high-enrollment K-5 school in Springville, Alabama, part of St Clair County. The school caters to 779 students in grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 62% bigger than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 480 students.

St Clair County runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 9,658 students. Springville Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Springville Elementary School logs that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 7% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Springville Elementary School has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.3:1. The state averages about 17.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, St. Clair County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Springville Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.9%; this one delivers 67.5%.

Across the wider county, St. Clair County reports that the typical household earns roughly $77,463 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Clair County's 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,737 students), Springville Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Springville Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Springville Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 14%: 905 students in 2018 compared to 779 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 92% to 85% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.