Public school / Primary
West Decatur Elementary School
Decatur, Alabama
- NCES ID
- 010117000435
- District
- Decatur City
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
West Decatur Elementary School is a public primary school in Decatur, Alabama, run by Decatur City. It enrols 346 students — the 59012th 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
346
Teachers
19.0
Students per teacher
18.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
89.3%
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 Decatur 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.
- 1Decatur High School1,040 students
- 2Austin High School1,025 students
- 3Decatur Middle School815 students
- 4Austin Junior High School773 students
- 5Austin Middle School714 students
- 6Oak Park Elementary School503 students
- 7Bankscaddell Elementary School453 students
- 8Chestnut Grove Elementary School447 students
- Enrollment−32.3%
- Teachers−29.6%
- Students per teacher+2.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+35.7%
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