Enrollment for this school is reported differently across five separate sources we checked: 168, 198, 201, 219, and 254 students, from different years and different secondary aggregators of the same underlying NCES Private School Survey (PSS) data. This is normal for private schools -- PSS updates less frequently than the public-school CCD data, and third-party sites often cache different survey years. We're showing the range rather than picking one number as if it were precise.

Overview

Southminster Day School is a private, Presbyterian-affiliated elementary school established in 1967 as a mission of Southminster Presbyterian Church, in Vestavia Hills, the same suburb as Vestavia Hills High School and Vestavia Hills Elementary East.

Academics

As a private school, Southminster Day School doesn't participate in Alabama's state assessment reporting the way public schools do, so no proficiency percentage is available for this profile through public sources. Private schools generally aren't required to report standardized test results publicly the way public schools are -- contact the school directly for any academic outcome data it chooses to share.

Neighborhood

Vestavia Hills is a majority-homeowner suburb of about 38,700 people in Jefferson County, generally ranked among Alabama's higher-income communities.

Crime & safety

FBI-data-based analysis puts Vestavia Hills' five-year (2019-2024) average violent crime rate at roughly 85% below the national average, and property crime about 48% below -- the same city-level data shown on the other two Vestavia Hills school profiles in this directory.

Our calculated rating

We don't publish a single proprietary score, and for this school we're not showing one at all: enrollment and staffing data are inconsistent enough across sources (see the note above) that we don't consider the resourcing component reliable, and no academic data is publicly available for a private school of this kind. Only the safety component has solid sourcing -- 1 of 3, and arguably an optimistic count given the other gaps. See our ratings methodology.

Sources

  1. NCES Private School Survey, School Search -- Southminster Day School, various years (enrollment figures vary by source year, see note above).
  2. Niche.com, Homes.com, and LocalSchoolDirectory.com school profiles, Southminster Day School (cross-checked, enrollment figures differ).
  3. Southminster Day School's own website, southminsterdayschool.org.
  4. CrimeExplorer.com and CrimeGrade.org, Vestavia Hills crime analyses, 2025.