Thompson Elementary School

Set in Gadsden, Alabama, Thompson Elementary School is a compact K-5 school, operated by Gadsden City. It enrolls 288 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so Thompson Elementary School sits 40% below that benchmark.

Thompson Elementary School is one of 12 schools operated by Gadsden City, a district that serves 4,940 students overall.

On demographics, Thompson Elementary School lists that 62% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder comes out to 17% White, 14% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Etowah County runs at roughly 58%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Thompson Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.0%, the actual is 28.0%, a residual of +3.0 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Etowah County put median household earnings sit near $54,563, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Thompson Elementary School is one of 42 public schools in Etowah County (combined enrollment of about 15,139 students).

Litchfield Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Thompson Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Thompson Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 36.4%.

Thompson Elementary School operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Thompson Elementary School has grew 26%, going from 228 students in 2018 to 288 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 75% to 62% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 20.2:1 today.

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