Public school / Primary
Adams Elementary School
Gadsden, Alabama
- NCES ID
- 010162001665
- District
- Gadsden City
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Adams Elementary School is a public primary school in Gadsden, Alabama, run by Gadsden City. It enrols 423 students — the 47681st largest of 1,528 public schools in Alabama.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
423
Teachers
25.0
Students per teacher
16.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
91.0%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Gadsden City
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Gadsden City High School1,318 students
- 2Gadsden Middle School464 students
- 3W E Striplin Elementary School464 students
- 4Adams Elementary School423 students
- 5Sansom Middle School376 students
- 6Floyd Elementary School367 students
- 7Eura Brown Elementary School335 students
- 8Donehoo Elementary School260 students
- Enrollment−17.2%
- Teachers−7.4%
- Students per teacher−4.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+38.3%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory