Schools · Mobile
Mobile, AL schools
Mobile’s public schools score well below Alabama’s averages: 39% of students are proficient in reading against 45.4% statewide, and 88% of high schoolers graduate on time against 90.6%. Kids attend one of 24 schools through grade 10, then one of 15 high schools and one of 6 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
C
Mobile’s School Grade: C
The public schools Mobile’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 66% of Alabama’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
C+Test scoresC-Graduation
Alabama school districts we grade (143)Better than 34%
Lower resultsHigher results
Alabama towns with similar household incomes (265)Better than 27%
High confidence. Built on 25,582 tested students and a graduating class of 3,745; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Alabama’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Alabama only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Alabama with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Mobile kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well below the state in reading
Reading (grades PK–12, Mobile County)39%
State average 45.4%
Math (grades PK–12, Mobile County)15%
State average 22%
Graduation · class of 2020
88% graduate on time
Graduation rate
88%
AL: 90.6%
Graduating class
3,745
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #141 of 193 AL towns →
Districts
The district serving Mobile
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 78 schools in Mobile
Showing 1–30 of 78 schools
ER Dickson Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 967 students
C+PublicOlive J Dodge Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 862 students
CPublicDr Robert W Gilliard ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 806 students
C-PublicORourke Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 799 students
A-PublicElizabeth Fonde Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 663 students
C-PublicOrchard Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 622 students
C-PublicW H Council Traditional SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 577 students
A+PublicKate Shepard Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 576 students
BPublicJohn Will Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 549 students
C-PublicLeinkauf Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 542 students
C-PublicMary B Austin Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 506 students
A-PublicEicholdMertz School of Math and ScienceElementary · Grades PK–5 · 504 students
A+PublicChastangFournier Middle SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 · 503 students
DPublicFlorence Howard Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 497 students
DPublicHolloway ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 483 students
DPublicMorningside Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 480 students
CPublicForest Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 478 students
C-PublicMaryvale Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 475 students
C-PublicSpencerWestlawn Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 428 students
B-PublicMary W Burroughs Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 404 students
C-PublicErwin Craighead Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 380 students
DPublicOld Shell Road Magnet SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 369 students
APublicCovenant Academy of MobileElementary · Grades K–6 · 327 students
CharterGeorge Hall Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 244 students
DPublicHL Sonny Callahan School for the Deaf and BlindElementary · Grades PK–5 · 45 students
C+PublicUCP Of Mobile IncElementary · Grades PK–K
PublicSt. Ignatius Catholic SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 624 students
PrivateCottage Hill Christian Academy, LowerElementary · Grades PK–8 · 479 students
PrivateSt. Mary Catholic SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 413 students
PrivateCorpus Christi Catholic SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 412 students
PrivateSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.