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Public school / Ungraded

Smith Station Freshman Center

Smiths Station, Alabama

NCES ID
010207002197
District
Lee County
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Smith Station Freshman Center is a public ungraded school in Smiths Station, Alabama, run by Lee County. It enrols 463 students — the 42087th largest of 1,528 public schools in Alabama.

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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

463students

42087th nationally, tied with 123

Teachers

27.0FTE

48484th nationally, tied with 2,306

Students per teacher

17.1students

65093rd nationally, tied with 636

Free or reduced-price lunch

56.4%percent

44075th nationally, tied with 101

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.

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Within Lee 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Smiths Station High School1,286 students
  2. 2Smiths Station Junior High School934 students
  3. 3West Smiths Station Elementary School870 students
  4. 4East Smiths Station Elementary School815 students
  5. 5Beauregard Elementary School769 students
  6. 6Beulah Elementary School705 students
  7. 7South Smiths Station Elementary School645 students
  8. 8Wacoochee Elementary School621 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Alabama median across 1,528 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−9.4%
  • Teachers0.0%
  • Students per teacher−3.4%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−14.3%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.