The top reported proficiency rate is 0% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Coosada Elementary School
Coosada Elementary School serves young students from pre-kindergarten through second grade in the Elmore County Public School System, located in Millbrook, Alabama. Because the school covers only the earliest grade levels, there are no state assessment results or graduation rate to report for this building. Those measures apply to later grades, and the data available reflects that straightforward fact about the school’s grade band.
The school enrolls a large student population for an early-elementary building, with a substantial share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is about evenly balanced between white students and Black students, with a notable Hispanic representation and smaller numbers of Asian, multiracial, and Native American students. This composition gives the school a diverse peer environment for its young learners.
Millbrook itself is a fast-growing residential suburb located north of Montgomery, the state capital. Interstate 65 provides three exits into the city, and Main Street runs as a four-lane connector through town. The community is car-dependent, with neighborhoods, strip commercial areas, and scattered parks rather than a walkable downtown core. Residential development has driven the city’s growth for more than a decade, and the population has increased steadily. Over 50 churches and numerous civic organizations anchor community life, and the city supports several public parks and a YMCA that offer recreational programs. The Village Green functions as a downtown park with Mill Creek running through it, but the schools are distributed across the suburban landscape rather than concentrated in a central area.
For Coosada Elementary, the absence of testing data means that there is no available measure of academic proficiency to characterize the school’s instructional outcomes. A parent evaluating this school for their child would want to inquire directly with the school or the district about early literacy and mathematics benchmarks, classroom assessment practices, and how the school prepares students for third grade, when state testing begins. The available data does not speak to these questions.
Relative to the other school districts in Elmore County, the school’s overall proficiency index places it in the bottom quartile. That comparison is based on the district-level proficiency index, however, and Coosada Elementary itself did not produce test scores due to its grade span. The comparison therefore reflects the district context rather than a direct measure of this school’s performance.
The school is a regular public school, not a charter. Information on special programs, staffing ratios, chronic absenteeism, and discipline was not available in the data reviewed. The district brief did not surface any recent parent-relevant changes such as curriculum shifts or boundary adjustments. A family looking at Coosada Elementary will find a large, diverse early-elementary school in a growing suburban community, but will need to seek out additional information from the school itself about its academic approach and early-grade outcomes.
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