Williams Avenue Elementary School

Located at 1700 Williams Ave NE, in Fort Payne, Alabama, Williams Avenue Elementary School is a micro-enrollment elementary campus that instructs 131 students (grade pre-K), one of the schools within Fort Payne City. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so Williams Avenue Elementary School sits 73% leaner than that benchmark.

Fort Payne City runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 3,508 students. Williams Avenue Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Williams Avenue Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 37% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, DeKalb County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Williams Avenue Elementary School has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Williams Avenue Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the broader community, DeKalb County reports that the typical household earns roughly $51,204 per year, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Williams Avenue Elementary School is one of 20 public schools in DeKalb County (combined enrollment of about 12,277 students).

Wills Valley Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Williams Avenue Elementary School.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 73%: 493 students in 2018 compared to 131 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 49% to 55% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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