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Etowah County

Gadsden, Alabama · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

8,739
Students enrolled
24
Public schools
502
Classroom teachers (FTE)
17.4:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 282
  • Kindergarten 714
  • Grade 1 685
  • Grade 2 720
  • Grade 3 651
  • Grade 4 638
  • Grade 5 651
  • Grade 6 592
  • Grade 7 632
  • Grade 8 646
  • Grade 9 656
  • Grade 10 664
  • Grade 11 593
  • Grade 12 615

By race/ethnicity

  • White 83%
  • Hispanic/Latino 6%
  • Two or more races 5%
  • Black or African American 4%
  • Asian 1%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

48% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 4,225 of 8,738 students in the 21 of its 22 schools that report
  • Free lunch 48%
  • Reduced-price lunch 0%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$11,938 spent per student on day-to-day operations Alabama median: $13,726 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $6,650
  • Support services $4,218
  • Other (food service, etc.) $1,071

Where the money comes from

  • Local 19%
  • State 65%
  • Federal 16%

Total revenue $126.3 milliontotal spending $113.5 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Rural: FringeStudents: 62% rural, 27% suburb, 11% town

Total staff (FTE)

1,103

District office

401 Broad Street, Gadsden AL 35901

County

Etowah County

Official website

NCES District ID

101380

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About Etowah County

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

The mission of Etowah County Board of Education, a progressive school system which takes pride in achieving excellence, is to provide a diverse and challenging program that includes academic, career technical, fine arts, and extra-curricular activities and which prepares its students to be leaders ready to contribute responsibly in a global, technological society through quality instruction and maximum use of resources within a safe environment
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