Public school / Primary
Sugar Creek Elementary School
Lester, Alabama
- NCES ID
- 010210000805
- District
- Limestone County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Sugar Creek Elementary School is a public primary school in Lester, Alabama, run by Limestone County. It enrols 646 students — the 22937th 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
646
Teachers
43.0
Students per teacher
15.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
63.3%
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 Limestone 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.
- 1Alabama Connections Academy7,063 students
- 2East Limestone High School1,282 students
- 3Ardmore High School993 students
- 4West Limestone High School733 students
- 5Sugar Creek Elementary School646 students
- 6Elkmont High School643 students
- 7Creekside Primary School634 students
- 8Cedar Hill Elementary School578 students
- Enrollment+26.4%
- Teachers+59.3%
- Students per teacher−15.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−3.8%
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