Public school / Primary
James Dawson Elementary
Huntsville, Alabama
- NCES ID
- 010180000650
- District
- Huntsville City
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
James Dawson Elementary is a public primary school in Huntsville, Alabama, run by Huntsville City. It enrols 432 students — the 46426th 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
432
Teachers
19.0
Students per teacher
22.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
88.2%
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−15.5%
- Teachers−29.6%
- Students per teacher+28.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+34.0%
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