West Morgan Elementary School

West Morgan Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary school in Trinity, Alabama, one of the schools within Morgan County. The school works with 512 students in grades pre-K through 3.

Morgan County comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 7,619 students; West Morgan Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, West Morgan Elementary School records that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 40% Hispanic, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Morgan County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, West Morgan Elementary School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting West Morgan Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Morgan County (around 56%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), West Morgan Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 31.9%; West Morgan Elementary School posts 61.4%, +29.5 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Morgan County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,845 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Morgan County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,204 students), of which West Morgan Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is West Morgan High School, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), West Morgan Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 7%: 552 students in 2018 compared to 512 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 55% to 47%.

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