Elementary · Alabama
Leighton Elementary School
Free meals for allLeighton Elementary School, a public elementary school in Leighton, Alabama: grades pre-k–6, 355 students, 13.9 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Colbert County.
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
- 355
- Teachers (FTE)
- 25.6
- Students per teacher
- 13.9
- Grades
- Pre-K–6
- Elementary
Fewer students per teacher than 92% of elementary schools in Alabama
Median 16.9 · 697 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 57% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Smaller than 72% of elementary schools in Alabama
Median 468 · 702 schools compared
Smaller than 62% 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
- Rural area near a city
- Run by
- Colbert County
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Colbert County.
Location
- Address
- 8100 Old Highway 20, Leighton, AL 35646
- Phone
- (256)446-8351
- City or town
- Leighton
- County
- Colbert 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Hatton Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–6 | 236 | 13.3 |
Hazlewood Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–6 | 221 | 17.0 |
Webster Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | 1–2 | 234 | 16.4 |
Howell Graves PreschoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–K | 356 | 18.7 |
McBride Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | 3–5 | 647 | 17.4 |
Highland Park Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | 1–2 | 236 | 17.8 |
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).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
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