Public school / Other
Linda Nolen Learning Center
Pelham, Alabama
- NCES ID
- 010303001803
- District
- Shelby County
- School type
- Special education
- Title I
- Not designated
Linda Nolen Learning Center is a public other school in Pelham, Alabama, run by Shelby County. It enrols 59 students — the 90861st 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
59
Teachers
14.0
Students per teacher
4.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
62.7%
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 Shelby County
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.
- 1Oak Mountain High School1,561 students
- 2Helena High School1,418 students
- 3Chelsea High School1,400 students
- 4Oak Mountain Middle School1,175 students
- 5Calera High1,066 students
- 6Helena Middle1,035 students
- 7Chelsea Middle School951 students
- 8Helena Intermediate School945 students
- Enrollment−88.5%
- Teachers−48.1%
- Students per teacher−76.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−4.7%
Where this sits
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