Whitesboro Elementary School

Set in Boaz, Alabama, Whitesboro Elementary School is a reasonably sized primary school, overseen by Etowah County. It instructs 423 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Etowah County comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 8,739 students; Whitesboro Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Whitesboro Elementary School lists that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Etowah County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Whitesboro Elementary School reports 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Roughly 43% of students at Whitesboro Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Etowah County's rate of about 58%.

With demographic context factored in, Whitesboro Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.9%, the actual is 66.6%, a residual of +13.7 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Etowah County shows the typical household earns roughly $54,563 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Whitesboro Elementary School is one of 42 public schools in Etowah County (combined enrollment of about 15,139 students).

The closest other public school is Sardis Middle School, roughly 2.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Whitesboro Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 34.4%.

Whitesboro Elementary School operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 49%: 284 students in 2018 compared to 423 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 97% to 90%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 today.

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