Public school / Primary
Whitesboro Elementary School
Boaz, Alabama
- NCES ID
- 010138000509
- District
- Etowah County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Whitesboro Elementary School is a public primary school in Boaz, Alabama, run by Etowah County. It enrols 348 students — the 58747th 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
348
Teachers
23.0
Students per teacher
15.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
53.7%
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 Etowah 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.
- 1Southside High School770 students
- 2John S Jones Elementary School739 students
- 3Rainbow Middle School625 students
- 4Hokes Bluff Elementary School592 students
- 5Sardis High School584 students
- 6Southside Elementary School570 students
- 7Sardis Middle School398 students
- 8Glencoe Elementary School390 students
- Enrollment−31.9%
- Teachers−14.8%
- Students per teacher−14.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−18.4%
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