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How has Wellborn Elementary School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
598
Elementary
DISTRICT 563 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CALHOUN COUNTY·NCES 010054000249
Wellborn Elementary School
525 Cooper Cir, Anniston, AL 36201 · (256) 741-7500 · Calhoun County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL598 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 34% of Alabama public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Alabama public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
446 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 58%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 34 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 85 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 79 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 77 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (85) is 10% larger than its 6th grade class (77).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
55.4%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
21.1%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
Source: ACAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
36.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.8%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Alabama's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Wellborn Elementary School
Wellborn Elementary School's state test result (36.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellborn Elementary School this school | 598 | 74.6% | 36.2% |
| Pearl Haskew Elementary Irvington | 546 | 71.2% | 49.6% |
| Attalla Elementary School Attalla | 665 | 70.2% | 45.4% |
| East Lawrence Elementary School Trinity | 576 | 66.5% | 40.9% |
| Blue Springs Elementary School Athens | 558 | 70.8% | 47.1% |
| WC Griggs Elementary School Mobile | 601 | 71.5% | 38.2% |
Matched among Alabama elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Wellborn Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Calhoun County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.2% | #452 of 626 | #11 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.1% | #501 of 626 | #11 of 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.4% | #416 of 626 | #11 of 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 598 | #182 of 709 | #5 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #370 of 655 | #11 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.2% | #390 of 658 | #7 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.6% | #158 of 696 | #4 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.9% | #253 of 364 | #4 of 6 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
598
+16 (+3%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 838
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 15.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 598 | 34.6 | 17.3:1 | 75% (446) |
| 2023-24 | 579 | 34.6 | 16.7:1 | 83% (481) |
| 2022-23 | 582 | 35 | 16.6:1 | 83% (484) |
| 2020-21 | 582 | 38 | 15.3:1 | 70% (406) |
| 2017-18 | 642 | 36 | 17.8:1 | 74% (477) |
| 2015-16 | 597 | 36 | 16.6:1 | 81% (485) |
| 2010-11 | 656 | 35 | 18.7:1 | 73% (481) |
| 2000-01 | 750 | 44 | 17.1:1 | 68% (508) |
| 1990-91 | 838 | 38 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wellborn Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (642 to 598); teachers down 4% (36 to 34.6).
About Wellborn Elementary School
Students in Anniston, Alabama, attend Wellborn Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. The school serves pre-K through 6. Enrollment is 598 students. Elementary schools in Alabama have about 480 students on average; enrollment here is 25% higher.
Across its 17 schools, Calhoun County enrolls 7,997 students. Wellborn Elementary School is one of those schools.
More than half of enrollment at Wellborn Elementary School is White: 75%. The next largest groups are 11% Black, 11% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. The diversity index for Wellborn Elementary School is 41%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.3:1. The school has 34.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 17.0:1 average for elementary schools in Alabama. In all, 75% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Calhoun County, the average eligibility rate is 58%.
Among Alabama public elementary schools, Wellborn Elementary School outscored 34%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Wellborn Elementary School is +6.4 points: 36.2% actual, 29.8% predicted.
In Calhoun County, home to about 116,090 people, median household income comes to about $55,029, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 21%, and about 13% of people live in poverty. Calhoun County's 38 public schools enroll about 16,686 students and include Wellborn Elementary School.
Wellborn High School is about 0.1 miles from Wellborn Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The school's 36.2% average proficiency ranks 4th among 8 nearby schools.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Small.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Wellborn Elementary School had a net gain of 16 students, or 3%. The ratio was 15.3:1 in 2020-21 and 17.3:1 in 2024-25.
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Calhoun County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
116,090
Census ACS
Median income
$55,029
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
38
16,686 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Calhoun County
- Alexandria Elementary SchoolElementary · 712 students
- Saks Elementary SchoolElementary · 625 students
- Weaver Elementary SchoolElementary · 544 students
- White Plains Elementary SchoolElementary · 530 students
- Alexandria Middle SchoolMiddle · 503 students
- Alexandria High SchoolHigh · 480 students
Other schools in Anniston
- Saks Elementary SchoolElementary · 625 students
- White Plains Elementary SchoolElementary · 530 students
- Anniston High SchoolHigh · 498 students
- De Armanville Elementary SchoolElementary · 478 students
- Wellborn High SchoolHigh · 425 students
- Saks High SchoolHigh · 419 students
Nearby schools
- Wellborn High School0.1 mi · 425
- Randolph Park Elementary School1.5 mi · 339
- Cobb Preparatory Academy2.3 mi · 270
- Anniston High School3.5 mi · 498
- CE Hanna School3.6 mi · 536
- Oxford Middle School3.8 mi · 619
Frequently asked questions
About Wellborn Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Wellborn Elementary School?
Wellborn Elementary School enrolls approximately 598 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Wellborn Elementary School serve?
Wellborn Elementary School serves grades PK-06.
How many students per teacher at Wellborn Elementary School?
Approximately 17.3:1 students per teacher at Wellborn Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Wellborn Elementary School?
At Wellborn Elementary School, the student body is approximately 75% White, 11% Hispanic, 11% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Wellborn Elementary School in?
Wellborn Elementary School is part of Calhoun County.
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