Swift Elementary School

Swift Elementary School operates as a micro-enrollment primary school in Bon Secour, Alabama, operated by Baldwin County. Current enrollment sits at 155 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so Swift Elementary School sits 68% leaner than that benchmark.

Baldwin County comprises 42 schools with combined enrollment of 31,965 students; Swift Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Swift Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 32% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the income-and-resources front, Swift Elementary School records 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Swift Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 74% 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, Baldwin County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Swift Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.1%; this one delivers 31.8%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Baldwin County) logs that median household income runs about $78,775, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Baldwin County's 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,975 students), Swift Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Gulf Shores Elementary School, roughly 4.3 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Swift Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.7%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 43%: 273 students in 2018 compared to 155 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 27% to 32% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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