Public school / Primary
Payne Elementary School
Selma, Alabama
- NCES ID
- 010297001158
- District
- Selma City
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Payne Elementary School is a public primary school in Selma, Alabama, run by Selma City. It enrols 176 students — the 80393rd 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
176
Teachers
12.0
Students per teacher
14.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
97.2%
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 Selma 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.
- 1Selma High School719 students
- 2The Rbhudson Steam Academy349 students
- 3Edgewood Elementary School343 students
- 4Sophia P Kingston Elementary School290 students
- 5Meadowview Elementary School276 students
- 6Payne Elementary School176 students
- 7School of Discovery Genesis Center172 students
- 8Clark Elementary School137 students
- Enrollment−65.6%
- Teachers−55.6%
- Students per teacher−16.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+47.7%
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