NCES CCD 2024-25 14 schools AL

Best-Resourced Schools in Selma, AL

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14 public K-12 schools in Selma from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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14
Schools
3,436
Students
39.9/100
Avg Resource Index
17.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Selma has more public-school enrollment than 35% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Selma sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

6 of Selma's 14 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

82.9% of enrollment in reporting Selma schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 2 districts. That pairing makes a citywide average especially easy to misread: the need measure follows students, but staffing decisions, calendars, program rules, and federal allocations are administered through separate district structures. The 44-point gap between Saints Virtual Academy and Edgewood Elementary School shows how much reported resource capacity can vary inside the same municipal label. Compare schools within the same district first, then use the city view to see how those local systems differ.

City enrollment
Top 65%
School count
Top 25%
Resource Index average
45th percentile
Teacher staffing
32nd percentile

Selma High School accounts for 19.8% of all Selma public-school enrollment

That concentration means Selma-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Selma school enrollment varies 28× across entities

Selma school enrollment ranges from 24 students (lowest) to 680 students (highest), a spread of 656 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Selma reports 82.9% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Selma student-teacher ratio is 17.2:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Selma is typically wider than the Selma-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Saints Virtual Academy 68
2. Tipton Durant Middle School 47
3. School of Discovery Genesis Center 47
4. Meadowview Elementary School 46
5. Sophia P Kingston Elementary School 42
6. Clark Elementary School 42
7. Payne Elementary School 41
8. The Rbhudson Steam Academy 39
9. Southside Primary School 38
10. Brantley Elementary School 34
11. Selma High School 31
12. Bruce K Craig Elementary School 31
13. Southside High School 29
14. Edgewood Elementary School 24

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Selma

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Brantley Elementary School 39.8/100
  2. 2 Meadowview Elementary School 19.0/100
  3. 3 Saints Virtual Academy 15.6/100
  4. 4 Tipton Durant Middle School 14.0/100
  5. 5 Bruce K Craig Elementary School 13.7/100

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Which Selma school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Saints Virtual Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Selma schools in this federal-data comparison at 68/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Selma, AL? ▼

Selma has 14 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,436 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.2:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.