Tanner Elementary School

Tanner Elementary School, a modestly sized elementary-level community in Tanner, Alabama, one of the schools within Limestone County, serves 338 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so Tanner Elementary School sits 30% below that benchmark.

Tanner Elementary School is one of 16 schools operated by Limestone County, a district that works with 16,694 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Tanner Elementary School logs that 36% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 32% White, 23% Black, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 8% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Tanner Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 79% of students at Tanner Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Limestone County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Tanner Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.3%, the actual is 33.2%, a residual of -4.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Limestone County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $83,629 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Tanner Elementary School is one of 27 public schools in Limestone County (combined enrollment of about 24,258 students).

The closest other public school is Tanner High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tanner Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 40.5%.

Tanner Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tanner Elementary School has shrank 3%, going from 350 students in 2018 to 338 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 37% to 32% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Tanner Elementary School typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.