Elementary · Alabama
James Dawson Elementary
Free meals for allJames Dawson Elementary, a public elementary school in Huntsville, Alabama: grades pre-k–6, 447 students, 17.1 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Huntsville City.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 447
- Teachers (FTE)
- 26.2
- Students per teacher
- 17.1
- Grades
- Pre-K–6
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 53% of elementary schools in Alabama
Median 16.9 · 697 schools compared
More students per teacher than 74% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Smaller than 54% of elementary schools in Alabama
Median 468 · 702 schools compared
Larger than 56% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades Pre-K–6
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize city
- Run by
- Huntsville City
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Huntsville City.
Location
- Address
- 5308 Mastin Lake Rd NW, Huntsville, AL 35810
- Phone
- (256)428-7500
- City or town
- Huntsville
- County
- Madison County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Academy For Academics Arts Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 400 | 17.4 |
Highlands Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–6 | 370 | 17.1 |
Academy For Science Foreign LanguageFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 303 | 13.8 |
Rolling Hills Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–6 | 483 | 17.0 |
Montview Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 213 | 16.5 |
Lakewood Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–6 | 397 | 17.3 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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