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Alumni: what's one memory from Whitesboro Elementary School that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
423
Elementary
DISTRICT 367 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ETOWAH COUNTY·NCES 010138000509
Whitesboro Elementary School
5080 Leeth Gap Rd, Boaz, AL 35956 · (256) 622-1110 · Etowah County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL423 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 83% of Alabama public elementary schools
- A-Test 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
18.4:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
181 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 58%
Community
5
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 | 30 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 78 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 47% larger than its 5th grade class (53).
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · 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
77.5%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
59.8%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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
66.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.9%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 Whitesboro Elementary School
Whitesboro Elementary School's state test result (66.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitesboro Elementary School this school | 423 | 42.8% | 66.6% |
| Hatton Elementary School Town Creek | 424 | 43.9% | 47.5% |
| Red Bay Elementary Red Bay | 410 | 41.2% | 59.0% |
| Good Hope Primary School Cullman | 401 | 40.9% | N/A |
| Cold Springs Elementary School Bremen | 500 | 40.2% | 58.7% |
| Ranburne Elementary School Ranburne | 343 | 44.9% | 57.1% |
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 Whitesboro Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Etowah County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.6% | #112 of 626 | #4 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.8% | #108 of 626 | #4 of 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.5% | #135 of 626 | #5 of 20 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 423 | #412 of 709 | #6 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.4:1 | #500 of 655 | #16 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.1% | #591 of 658 | #19 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.8% | #555 of 696 | #17 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +48.9% | #17 of 262 | #1 of 9 |
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
423
+102 (+32%) vs 2020
+63% since 1990-91, when it was 260
Student : Teacher
18.4:1
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 | 423 | 23 | 18.4:1 | 43% (181) |
| 2023-24 | 385 | 22 | 17.5:1 | 54% (209) |
| 2022-23 | 348 | 23 | 15.1:1 | 54% (187) |
| 2020-21 | 321 | 21 | 15.3:1 | 44% (141) |
| 2017-18 | 284 | 19.2 | 14.8:1 | 52% (147) |
| 2015-16 | 283 | 16 | 17.7:1 | 55% (157) |
| 2010-11 | 342 | 20 | 17.1:1 | 52% (177) |
| 2000-01 | 254 | 16 | 15.9:1 | 33% (85) |
| 1990-91 | 260 | 13 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Whitesboro Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 49% (284 to 423); teachers up 20% (19.2 to 23).
About Whitesboro Elementary School
Whitesboro Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Alabama, with an address in Boaz. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 423 students enrolled.
Enrollment across the 22 schools in Etowah County totals 8,739 students.
White students are 90% of those enrolled at Whitesboro Elementary School. The rest of enrollment is 5% multiracial and 4% Hispanic. Census estimates put the White share of Etowah County's population at about 77%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 18%.
Its staff includes 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 18.4 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Alabama, 17.0:1, is lower. Whitesboro Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 43%. The average for public schools in Etowah County is 58%.
On the allk12 Grade, Whitesboro Elementary School lands at A-, ahead of 83% of Alabama public elementary schools.
Whitesboro Elementary School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 66.6% is 13.7 points above the 52.9% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
For the population of Etowah County, the median household earns about $54,563 a year, about 18% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. Across Etowah County, 42 public schools serve about 15,139 students.
Sardis Middle School, about 2.9 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, 4 other public schools are within five miles. Whitesboro Elementary School places 1st of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Whitesboro Elementary School is coded as Rural: Distant in federal locale data.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 423, up from 321 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 18.4 students per teacher, compared with 15.3 in 2020-21.
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Etowah County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
103,105
Census ACS
Median income
$54,563
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
42
15,139 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Etowah County
- Southside High SchoolHigh · 825 students
- John S Jones Elementary SchoolElementary · 745 students
- Rainbow Middle SchoolMiddle · 634 students
- Hokes Bluff Elementary SchoolElementary · 610 students
- Southside Elementary SchoolElementary · 585 students
- Sardis High SchoolHigh · 546 students
Other schools in Boaz
- Boaz High SchoolHigh · 721 students
- Boaz Middle SchoolMiddle · 583 students
- Boaz Elementary SchoolElementary · 513 students
- Corley Elementary SchoolElementary · 429 students
- Boaz Intermediate SchoolElementary · 361 students
- Carlisle Elementary SchoolElementary · 343 students
Other Whitesboro Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Whitesboro Elementary. Whitesboro Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Whitesboro Elementary SchoolWhitesboro, OK · 146 students
Nearby schools
- Sardis Middle School2.9 mi · 381
- Sardis High School3.2 mi · 546
- Duck Springs Elementary School4.2 mi · 207
- Carlisle Elementary School4.3 mi · 343
- Boaz Intermediate School6.0 mi · 361
- Boaz Middle School6.3 mi · 583
Frequently asked questions
About Whitesboro Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Whitesboro Elementary School?
Whitesboro Elementary School enrolls approximately 423 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Whitesboro Elementary School serve?
Whitesboro Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Whitesboro Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Whitesboro Elementary School is approximately 18.4:1 (23 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Whitesboro Elementary School?
At Whitesboro Elementary School, the student body is approximately 90% White, 4% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Whitesboro Elementary School public or private?
Whitesboro Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Etowah County.
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