📍 7323 Alabama Highway 36, Danville, Lawrence County, 35619
Speake is a State/Public serving elementary age pupils, located in Danville, Lawrence County. The school has 180 pupils enrolled. It is part of the Lawrence County school district. It serves grades Pre-K–6 in a rural setting. The school employs 12.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 14.4:1.
Speake enrolls 180 students across grades Pre-K–6. The student body is 56% male and 44% female. A teaching staff of 12.5 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 14.4:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 81% White, 7.2% Hispanic or Latino and 6.1% American Indian or Alaska Native.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| White | 146 | 81% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 13 | 7.2% |
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 11 | 6.1% |
| Black or African American | 10 | 5.6% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
129 of the school's 180 students (72%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Speake is located in a rural setting (NCES locale: Rural, Distant). The school runs a schoolwide Title I program, which provides federal funding to support students from low-income families. For civic and policy purposes, the school sits in congressional district DE-50.
Speake is one of 14 schools in Lawrence County, based in Moulton, Alabama. The district serves 4,676 students district-wide and employs 289 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 180 students, Speake is smaller than the district average of about 334 students per school.