Wares Ferry Elementary School

Wares Ferry Elementary School, a modestly sized elementary campus in Montgomery, Alabama, overseen by Montgomery County, teaches 361 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so Wares Ferry Elementary School sits 25% below that benchmark.

Across the 51 schools in Montgomery County (26,958 students total), Wares Ferry Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Wares Ferry Elementary School reports that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder consists of 2% multiracial, 2% White, 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 59% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Wares Ferry Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.9%, the actual is 30.6%, a residual of -4.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate the typical household earns roughly $59,386 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Wares Ferry Elementary School is one of 60 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 31,131 students).

Garrett Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wares Ferry Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wares Ferry Elementary School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 36.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Wares Ferry Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 17% since 2018, when it stood at 437 (now 361). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.