McAdory Elementary School

Summary:

McAdory Elementary School is a public elementary school in Mc Calla, Alabama, serving 667 students in grades PK-5 as part of the Jefferson County School District.

Academically, McAdory Elementary's performance is generally below state and district averages. In the 2023-2024 school year, the school's proficiency rates in Mathematics ranged from 20% for 5th grade to 40.21% for 3rd grade, compared to state averages of 37.13% and 42.16%. In English Language Arts, the school's proficiency rates ranged from 43.02% for 4th grade to 60.18% for 5th grade, compared to state averages of 58% and 63.07%. However, the school's African American and Hispanic students performed better than the overall school, while White students and English Language Learners performed significantly worse.

When compared to nearby schools, such as McCalla Elementary, McAdory Elementary's academic performance is generally lower. Additionally, the school's per-student spending of $8,246 in 2018-2019 was lower than the state average, and its student-teacher ratio of 18:1 in 2022-2023 was higher than McCalla Elementary's ratio of 18.8:1, which may contribute to the school's challenges.


Detail:

Public PK, KG-5

 6251 Eastern Valley Rd
       Mc Calla, AL  35111


(205) 379-4650

District: Jefferson County

SchoolDigger Rank:
455th of 684 Alabama Elementary Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures:  $8,246 Help


Students who attend McAdory Elementary School usually attend:

Middle:    McAdory Middle School
High:    McAdory High School

Student/teacher ratio:  18.0 Help
Number of students:  667

Racial breakdown:

African American:
60.3%
White:
24.1%
Hispanic:
10.6%
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Free/discounted lunch recipients:  61.2% Help


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Performance Trends
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Compare Details McAdory Elementary School ranks worse than 66.5% of elementary schools in Alabama. It also ranks 13th among 26 ranked elementary schools in the Jefferson County School District. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2024 the calculated Average Standard Score was 36.28. (See more...)
Student Body
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Compare Details Racial makeup is: African American (60.3%), White (24.1%), Hispanic (10.6%). (See more...)
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Compare Details 61.2% of students are receiving a free or discounted lunch. (See more...)
Teachers
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Compare Details The student/teacher ratio at McAdory Elementary School is 18, which is the 13th best among 26 elementary schools in the Jefferson County School District. (See more...)
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Finance
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Compare Details The average total spent per student at McAdory Elementary School is $8,246. 25 elementary schools in the Jefferson County School District spend more per student.
Schooldigger 2024 Rankings:

McAdory Elementary School:

SchoolDigger ranks McAdory Elementary School 455th of 684 Alabama public elementary schools. (See McAdory Elementary School in the ranking list.)

Elementary School Test Score Ratings by Student Subgroup:


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Jefferson County:

SchoolDigger ranks Jefferson County 97th of 137 Alabama school districts. (See district ranking list.)


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Rank History for McAdory Elementary School

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Rank History for all students at McAdory Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2004 24.16 509th 623 18.3%
2005 30.96 545th 688 20.8%
2006 34.41 520th 689 24.5%
2007 33.97 538th 698 22.9%
2008 41.23 469th 698 32.8%
2009 37.62 511th 696 26.6%
2010 47.65 442nd 704 37.2%
2011 60.53 315th 709 55.6%
2012 66.91 227th 696 67.4%
2013 67.09 220th 696 68.4%
2014 54.89 308th 695 55.7%
2015 53.49 306th 691 55.7%
2016 66.28 212th 691 69.3%
2017 57.01 296th 688 57.0%
2018 53.91 332nd 680 51.2%
2019 43.01 410th 681 39.8%
2021 36.40 454th 692 34.4%
2022 51.40 344th 687 49.9%
2023 42.01 404th 680 40.6%
2024 36.28 455th 684 33.5%
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Rank History for English Language Learner students at McAdory Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 42.84 35th 65 46.2%
2019 51.12 27th 74 63.5%
2021 37.62 65th 100 35.0%
2022 58.70 36th 110 67.3%
2024 31.31 104th 131 20.6%
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Rank History for Special Education students at McAdory Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2017 58.35 88th 280 68.6%
2018 37.23 211th 344 38.7%
2019 52.87 150th 392 61.7%
2021 29.43 304th 398 23.6%
2022 49.90 145th 345 58.0%
2023 19.45 337th 373 9.7%
2024 20.10 347th 395 12.2%
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Rank History for Low Socio Economic Status students at McAdory Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2017 43.58 346th 567 39.0%
2018 40.56 413th 651 36.6%
2019 29.36 490th 649 24.5%
2021 32.63 451st 653 30.9%
2022 40.87 395th 651 39.3%
2023 49.22 326th 623 47.7%
2024 32.90 473rd 670 29.4%
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Rank History for Female students at McAdory Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2017 51.41 319th 639 50.1%
2018 55.94 301st 640 53.0%
2019 44.19 391st 646 39.5%
2021 36.55 423rd 656 35.5%
2022 52.04 312th 656 52.4%
2023 47.37 344th 645 46.7%
2024 39.78 411th 650 36.8%
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Rank History for Male students at McAdory Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2017 59.62 250th 639 60.9%
2018 52.70 320th 650 50.8%
2019 42.65 397th 650 38.9%
2021 35.23 438th 669 34.5%
2022 49.61 340th 669 49.2%
2023 38.13 413th 649 36.4%
2024 35.36 440th 655 32.8%
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Rank History for African American students at McAdory Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2017 54.39 125th 336 62.8%
2018 70.13 86th 423 79.7%
2019 51.26 174th 426 59.2%
2021 51.04 169th 426 60.3%
2022 71.36 76th 426 82.2%
2023 63.68 106th 427 75.2%
2024 60.44 128th 420 69.5%
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Rank History for Hispanic students at McAdory Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2017 65.97 28th 130 78.5%
2018 61.78 40th 140 71.4%
2019 43.71 85th 152 44.1%
2021 37.21 103rd 164 37.2%
2022 63.44 51st 175 70.9%
2023 59.97 62nd 184 66.3%
2024 49.65 84th 196 57.1%
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Rank History for White students at McAdory Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AL State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2017 57.11 138th 369 62.6%
2018 51.57 242nd 508 52.4%
2019 44.01 299th 529 43.5%
2021 31.04 389th 539 27.8%
2022 45.17 288th 540 46.7%
2023 35.09 364th 528 31.1%
2024 26.12 441st 535 17.6%
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Data source: test scores: Alabama State Department of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

As you review the school rankings data, please be aware that some of the information from certain demographics is missing. The reason for this omission is that the data has been redacted from the source data itself due to low population samples in these specific demographic groups.

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Data source: Alabama State Department of Education

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by a parent
Monday, October 26, 2015

Open Quote The school is very over crowded, built for around 600 students and now has well over 1000. Instead of adding on to the school, the county's solution is to add more trailers. My child is now in the 3rd grade and has only been inside the actual building her 1st grade year. Close Quote


by a parent
Friday, April 2, 2010

Open Quote I put my daughters through Jeff Co schools 15 yrs ago and it was great. I withdrew my son today, a kindergarten student because of lazy and incompetent principals. If you want a good education then you should look elsewhere. Close Quote


by a parent
Friday, August 14, 2009

Open Quote Why do you hold car-pick-up students ten minutes after bus students?
Are you trying to punish car-pick-up students because they don't ride the bus?
Did you have a traffic engineer re-design this current mess of after school pick-up?
Maybe nobody there ever heard "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
I picked up students there for two years and in all those times nothing ever occurred as idiotic as this wrap around maze. It is terrible. It is dysfulnctional. It is insane. Did I say idiotic. Or ridiculous?
Does somebody want to punish car pick-up students and force them to want to ride school buses? It's insane. It's inefficient.
1st day of school my student got in the car at 3:40 after I'd waited in car line for 1 1/2 hours.
2nd day my student got in the car at 3:20 after I'd waited in the car line for 55 minutes.
3rd day my student got in the car at 3:12 after I'd waited 50 minutes. Your street monitors stand around saying to be patient. It will get better. Those times may sound like "improvement in the new system." It is not! One reason is fewer cars!
Never in the two previous years of picking up my student did they ever go past five minutes past three getting in the car.
What happens when it rains -- really rains hard -- as it does in these parts -- run the students out in the rain getting wet, when previously they were protected from the elements by getting in their cars under the portico at the front.
The previous two years, students exited the front doors as cars passed under the covered drive at the same time buses loaded from the side doors. During that "bus load times" 20 to 30 cars would safely load and depart before the buses loaded and left. That makes sense. But no! Now bus students get out of school at 2:45 and car students have to wait an additional 10 minutes. None of it makes sense.
A new regime brings in a new car pick-up system whether it makes any sense or not. The new system is far far worse than anything of the two previous years that I picked up students.
Stop penalizing car students -- their school day needlessly ends after bus students. They have to wait much longer for their rides to weave through a senseless maze. Close Quote



Enrollment information for McAdory Elementary School

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Year White African American Asian Hispanic American Indian Pacific Islander Two or More Races Not Specified Total
1997 619 164 0 0 0 n/a n/a 0 783
1998 645 167 4 0 0 n/a n/a 0 816
1999 687 171 2 1 1 n/a n/a 1 863
2000 665 148 1 0 1 n/a n/a 1 816
2001 664 159 1 5 1 n/a n/a 0 830
2002 638 188 2 4 2 n/a n/a 0 834
2003 638 188 2 4 2 n/a n/a 0 834
2004 665 202 3 5 1 n/a n/a 3 879
2005 644 216 3 8 0 n/a n/a 0 871
2006 672 234 1 14 0 n/a n/a 3 924
2007 685 263 4 20 0 n/a n/a 4 976
2008 671 264 4 22 0 n/a n/a 0 961
2009 697 275 6 29 1 n/a n/a 0 1008
2010 652 286 9 38 0 n/a n/a 9 994
2011 631 285 11 47 1 0 7 0 982
2012 668 316 10 51 0 0 12 0 1057
2013 636 363 8 59 0 0 21 0 1087
2014 632 394 7 67 0 0 23 0 1123
2015 609 399 4 68 0 0 32 0 1112
2016 592 452 13 84 2 0 0 0 1143
2017 539 496 12 106 1 1 0 0 1155
2018 480 529 9 115 1 0 0 0 1134
2019 458 537 12 119 0 0 14 0 1140
2020 368 539 13 120 1 0 25 0 1066
2021 298 522 12 120 1 0 26 0 979
2022 164 367 5 73 1 0 20 0 630
2023 161 402 3 71 0 0 30 0 667

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Enrollment/Ethnicity

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Students eligible for free or discounted lunch at McAdory Elementary School

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1997 783 46.9 16.7 31.3
1998 816 48.9 16.7 28.7
1999 863 51.0 16.9 39.4
2000 816 54.0 15.1 33.9
2001 830 53.0 15.7 39.5
2002 834 56.0 14.9 40.4
2003 834 56.0 14.9 40.4
2004 879 56.0 15.7 38.1
2005 871 62.0 14.0 38.7
2006 924 60.0 15.4 36.3
2007 976 66.2 14.7 36.6
2008 961 64.1 15.0 35.8
2009 1008 60.0 16.6 32.6
2010 994 64.0 15.5 38.7
2011 982 70.4 13.9 37.3
2012 1057 62.4 16.9 44
2013 1087 75.4 14.4 44.9
2014 1123 66.0 17.0 42.8
2015 1112 61.0 18.2 41.2
2016 1143 62.0 18.4 36.9
2017 1155 65.0 17.7 44.4
2018 1134 64.0 17.7 48.7
2019 1140 64.0 17.8 46.6
2020 1066 61.0 17.4 51.7
2021 979 58.0 16.8 52.2
2022 630 33.0 19.0 42.9
2023 667 37.0 18.0 61.2

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Students eligible for discounted/free lunch:

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides low-cost or free meals to students in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools based on household income. Those with incomes below 130% of the poverty line receive free lunch, while those between 130% and 185% qualify for reduced-price lunch. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch serves as a marker for poverty, as it reflects the socioeconomic status of families in a given school or district. A higher FRPL rate typically indicates a higher concentration of low-income families, suggesting that the school or district may face additional challenges in providing adequate resources and support for student success.

Student/Teacher Ratio McAdory Elementary School

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1997 783 46.9 16.7 31.3
1998 816 48.9 16.7 28.7
1999 863 51.0 16.9 39.4
2000 816 54.0 15.1 33.9
2001 830 53.0 15.7 39.5
2002 834 56.0 14.9 40.4
2003 834 56.0 14.9 40.4
2004 879 56.0 15.7 38.1
2005 871 62.0 14.0 38.7
2006 924 60.0 15.4 36.3
2007 976 66.2 14.7 36.6
2008 961 64.1 15.0 35.8
2009 1008 60.0 16.6 32.6
2010 994 64.0 15.5 38.7
2011 982 70.4 13.9 37.3
2012 1057 62.4 16.9 44
2013 1087 75.4 14.4 44.9
2014 1123 66.0 17.0 42.8
2015 1112 61.0 18.2 41.2
2016 1143 62.0 18.4 36.9
2017 1155 65.0 17.7 44.4
2018 1134 64.0 17.7 48.7
2019 1140 64.0 17.8 46.6
2020 1066 61.0 17.4 51.7
2021 979 58.0 16.8 52.2
2022 630 33.0 19.0 42.9
2023 667 37.0 18.0 61.2

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Student-Teacher Ratio

Student/teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of students by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. Please note that a smaller student/teacher ratio does not necessarily translate to smaller class size. In some instances, schools hire teachers part time, and some teachers are hired for specialized instruction with very small class sizes. These and other factors contribute to the student/teacher ratio. Note: For private schools, Student/teacher ratio may not include Pre-Kindergarten.
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Per Pupil Expenditures for McAdory Elementary School

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YearExpenditures from Federal FundsExpenditures from State and Local FundsTotal Expenditures Per Pupil (All Funds)
2019 $929 (11.3%) $7,299 (88.5%) $8,246

Data source: Alabama Department of Education
Pre and Post Pandemic Data

Impact of COVID-19 on McAdory Elementary School

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Rankings

Rank
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Rank
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Ranks 410th of 681 Elementary schoolsRanks 404th of 680 Elementary schools
 0.8%

Test Scores

% proficient
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
% proficient
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
3rd Grade Mathematics (McAdory Elementary School)55.241.3
 13.9%
   3rd Grade Mathematics (Jefferson County)46.432.7
 13.7%
   3rd Grade Mathematics (Alabama)57.543.6
 13.9%
4th Grade Mathematics (McAdory Elementary School)47.838.7
 9.1%
   4th Grade Mathematics (Jefferson County)36.723.6
 13.1%
   4th Grade Mathematics (Alabama)47.334.9
 12.4%
5th Grade Mathematics (McAdory Elementary School)29.127.2
 1.9%
   5th Grade Mathematics (Jefferson County)34.321.2
 13.1%
   5th Grade Mathematics (Alabama)44.933.9
 10.9%

Student Body

Number of students
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Number of students
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Total Students1140667
 41.5%
African American537402
 25.1%
American Indian00
Asian123
 75%
Hispanic11971
 40.3%
Pacific Islander00
White458161
 64.8%
Two or More Races1430
 114.3%
% Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients46.6%61.2%
 14.6%


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Frequently Asked Questions about McAdory Elementary School

In the 2022-23 school year, 667 students attended McAdory Elementary School.

Students who attend McAdory Elementary School usually go on to attend:

Middle : McAdory Middle School
High : McAdory High School

McAdory Elementary School ranks 455th of 684 Alabama elementary schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 2 stars out of 5.

Students at McAdory Elementary School are 60% African American, 24% White, 11% Hispanic, 4% Two or more races.


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