Alexandria Elementary School, Alexandria AL

Original Research by School Decision on Alexandria Elementary School

Alexandria Elementary School is a regular public school serving prekindergarten through fourth grade in the unincorporated community of Alexandria, part of the Calhoun County school system. The school sits along the US highway corridor that defines this car-oriented, low-density area, where residential subdivisions and strip commercial development spread across roughly eleven square miles. There is no traditional downtown; the school buildings themselves, along with the middle and high schools nearby and a restored historic post office, function as the community’s civic anchors. The area has been described as rapidly growing, and the housing market reflects that trajectory: home values here are below both state and national benchmarks, and a typical mortgage payment would be manageable for a household earning around the national median income. For families, this is a place where homeownership is attainable and the school is a central institution.

Academically, Alexandria Elementary’s strongest showing is in English language arts. On the most recent state assessments, proficiency rates in both third and fourth grade were well above the halfway mark, and the school’s overall performance across tested subjects places it in the top quarter of all schools in Calhoun County. Science results are also solid, with about two-thirds of fourth graders meeting the proficiency standard. Math is the softer spot: roughly two in five students were proficient in third and fourth grade math. This is not an alarm but an area where a parent may want to ask the school about interventions or curriculum supports. Because this is only one year of data, there is no trend to observe yet—this is a snapshot, not a pattern.

The student body is predominantly white, with a much smaller share of Black and Hispanic students and a very small number of Asian and multiracial students. More than six in ten students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, indicating that a substantial portion of families face economic need. Information on special education and English learner enrollment was not available in the data we reviewed. The school serves only early grades, so there is no graduation rate to report, and chronic absenteeism and discipline data were also absent from this profile. Those gaps are not unusual for a school that stops at fourth grade, but a parent curious about those dimensions would need to ask the school directly.

The district of Calhoun County reports little in the way of recent structural changes or new initiatives that would affect this school. Alexandria Elementary appears to hold steady within a district that runs several schools across a mostly rural and suburban county. For families living in or moving to this growing community, the school offers a solid elementary foundation with clear strengths in reading and a relative edge among its county peers. The math results are worth exploring, but the overall picture is of a school that serves its students well in the early years, in a setting where housing is affordable and the community is expanding.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 344%

School 44% · District 41% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 1 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 444%

School 44% · District 35% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 368%

School 68% · District 67% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 472%

School 72% · District 62% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Science

Grade 466%

School 66% · District 47% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

This schoolCalhoun County, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income58%Higher-income85%26 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income69%Higher-income76%6 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income34%Higher-income62%28 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income38%Higher-income51%13 pp gap