The Alberta School of Performing Arts

The Alberta School of Performing Arts is an elementary school of medium-sized scale in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, run under Tuscaloosa City, works with 632 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so The Alberta School of Performing Arts sits 32% above that benchmark.

Within Tuscaloosa City, which oversees 19 schools and 11,230 students, The Alberta School of Performing Arts is one campus in the system.

On demographics, The Alberta School of Performing Arts records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (84%). The remainder reads as 6% White, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Tuscaloosa County as a whole is about 31% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Tuscaloosa County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, The Alberta School of Performing Arts sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.3%; this one delivers 44.8%.

Around the school, census data for Tuscaloosa County shows median household income runs about $66,231, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Tuscaloosa County runs 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,508 students), of which The Alberta School of Performing Arts is one.

Nearest neighbor: Arcadia Elementary School, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts The Alberta School of Performing Arts at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 39.0%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at The Alberta School of Performing Arts has ticked up 12%, going from 565 students in 2018 to 632 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 88% to 84% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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