Webster Elementary School

Set in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Webster Elementary School is a cozy elementary campus, one of the schools within Muscle Shoals City. It enrolls 234 students across grades 1 through 2. Enrollment runs roughly 51% below the state mean of about 480.

Muscle Shoals City runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,979 students. Webster Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Webster Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 20% Black, 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Webster Elementary School shows 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 41% of students at Webster Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Colbert County's rate of about 50%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Colbert County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,628 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Colbert County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,178 students), of which Webster Elementary School is one.

Muscle Shoals High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 18%: 198 students in 2018 compared to 234 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 70% to 64% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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