Wylam Elementary School

Set in Birmingham, Alabama, Wylam Elementary School is an intimate elementary campus, overseen by Birmingham City. It serves 399 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Birmingham City runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 20,954 students. Wylam Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Wylam Elementary School reports that nearly all students (85%) are Black; the rest comes out to 11% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 42% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Jefferson County's rate of about 52%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wylam Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.0%, the actual is 26.5%, a residual of -0.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) records that median household earnings sit near $66,388, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Jefferson County's 181 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students), Wylam Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Fairfield High Preparatory School, roughly 1.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wylam Elementary School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 44.3%.

Wylam Elementary School operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 8%: 434 students in 2018 compared to 399 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 95% to 85%.

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