Public school / Primary
Goldsmithschiffman Elementary
Big Cove, Alabama
- NCES ID
- 010180002173
- District
- Huntsville City
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Goldsmithschiffman Elementary is a public primary school in Big Cove, Alabama, run by Huntsville City. It enrols 964 students — the 9357th 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
964
Teachers
52.0
Students per teacher
18.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
11.9%
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 Huntsville 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.
- 1Virgil Grissom High School1,974 students
- 2Huntsville High School1,826 students
- 3Goldsmithschiffman Elementary964 students
- 4Columbia High School954 students
- 5Providence Elementary848 students
- 6Jemison High School843 students
- 7Lee High School840 students
- 8Hampton Cove Middle School735 students
- Enrollment+88.6%
- Teachers+92.6%
- Students per teacher+4.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−81.9%
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