Vestavia Hills Elementary East

Overview

Vestavia Hills Elementary East is one of five elementary schools in the Vestavia Hills City Schools district, serving grades PK-5 in the same suburban Birmingham district as Vestavia Hills High School.

Academics

A third-party school-ranking site citing state test data reports roughly 76% of students scoring at or above proficient in math and 87% in reading, with about 6% of students classified as economically disadvantaged -- notably lower than many Alabama elementary schools, consistent with the district's higher-income setting. These proficiency figures come from a secondary aggregator rather than being independently pulled from the Alabama State Department of Education's own report-card site for this profile, so treat them as indicative rather than final; verify current figures directly with the state.

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 that applies to Vestavia Hills High School, since both schools sit in the same city.

Our calculated rating

We don't publish a single proprietary score. The academic figures above come from a secondary source rather than a directly verified state assessment pull, so we're not treating them as a sourced rating component for this profile yet. That leaves 1 of 3 possible components (safety) independently sourced -- too thin to display responsibly. See our ratings methodology.

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