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Mobile County

Mobile, Alabama · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

49,946
Students enrolled
92
Public schools
2,827
Classroom teachers (FTE)
17.7:1
Students per teacher

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

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 1,520
  • Kindergarten 3,869
  • Grade 1 4,127
  • Grade 2 4,151
  • Grade 3 4,004
  • Grade 4 3,728
  • Grade 5 3,806
  • Grade 6 3,497
  • Grade 7 3,512
  • Grade 8 3,511
  • Grade 9 3,848
  • Grade 10 3,601
  • Grade 11 3,513
  • Grade 12 3,259

By race/ethnicity

  • Black or African American 50%
  • White 35%
  • Hispanic/Latino 7%
  • Two or more races 5%
  • Asian 2%
  • 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

68% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 33,751 of 49,761 students in the 84 of its 85 schools that report
  • Free lunch 68%
  • 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

$14,984 spent per student on day-to-day operations Alabama median: $13,726 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $7,369
  • Support services $6,755
  • Other (food service, etc.) $860

Where the money comes from

  • Local 25%
  • State 47%
  • Federal 28%

Total revenue $928.5 milliontotal spending $892.7 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)

City: MidsizeStudents: 47% city, 34% rural, 18% suburb

Total staff (FTE)

5,846

District office

1 Magnum Pass, Mobile AL 36618

County

Mobile County

Official website

NCES District ID

102370

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About Mobile County

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

"The mission of the Mobile County Public School System is to graduate citizens who are literate,responsible and committed to learning over a lifetime."
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Public Schools in Mobile County (114)

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Baker High School

Mobile, AL · Grades 09–12 · 2,271 students · High

Mary G Montgomery High School

Semmes, AL · Grades 09–12 · 1,888 students · High

Alma Bryant High School

Irvington, AL · Grades 09–12 · 1,624 students · High

WP Davidson High School

Mobile, AL · Grades 09–12 · 1,470 students · High

Bernice J Causey Middle School

Mobile, AL · Grades 06–08 · 1,339 students · Middle

Theodore High School

Theodore, AL · Grades 09–12 · 1,218 students · High

Murphy High School

Mobile, AL · Grades 09–12 · 1,212 students · High

Semmes Middle School

Semmes, AL · Grades 06–08 · 1,181 students · Middle

Mattie T Blount High School

Eight Mile, AL · Grades 09–12 · 1,058 students · High

ER Dickson Elementary School

Mobile, AL · Grades PK–05 · 967 students · Elementary

Lillie B Williamson High School

Mobile, AL · Grades 06–12 · 889 students · High

Olive J Dodge Elementary School

Mobile, AL · Grades PK–05 · 862 students · Elementary

Allentown Elementary School

Semmes, AL · Grades PK–05 · 843 students · Elementary

McDavidJones Elementary School

Citronelle, AL · Grades PK–05 · 826 students · Elementary

Dr Robert W Gilliard Elementary

Mobile, AL · Grades PK–05 · 806 students · Elementary

ORourke Elementary School

Mobile, AL · Grades PK–05 · 799 students · Elementary

Katherine H Hankins Middle School

Theodore, AL · Grades 06–08 · 771 students · Middle

Grand Bay Middle School

Grand Bay, AL · Grades 06–08 · 751 students · Middle

Citronelle High School

Citronelle, AL · Grades 09–12 · 734 students · High

Elsie Collier Elementary School

Mobile, AL · Grades PK–05 · 731 students · Elementary

Elizabeth Fonde Elementary School

Mobile, AL · Grades PK–05 · 663 students · Elementary

CL Scarborough Model Middle School

Mobile, AL · Grades 06–08 · 641 students · Middle

Orchard Elementary School

Mobile, AL · Grades PK–05 · 622 students · Elementary

CF Vigor High School

Prichard, AL · Grades 09–12 · 620 students · High