Public school / Primary
Phillips Academy
Birmingham, Alabama
- NCES ID
- 010039001878
- District
- Birmingham City
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Phillips Academy is a public primary school in Birmingham, Alabama, run by Birmingham City. It enrols 654 students — the 22333rd 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
654
Teachers
33.0
Students per teacher
19.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
57.5%
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 Birmingham 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.
- 1Huffman High Schoolmagnet1,147 students
- 2Parker High School826 students
- 3Jacksonolin High School784 students
- 4Woodlawn High Schoolmagnet738 students
- 5Huffman Academy735 students
- 6Glen Iris Elementary School731 students
- 7Ramsay High School660 students
- 8Hayes K8658 students
- Enrollment+28.0%
- Teachers+22.2%
- Students per teacher+11.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−12.6%
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