Mobile, AL
Kids in Mobile
Public-school enrollment and staffing from NCES, plus bedrooms, childcare and how educated the adults already here are. This is not a GreatSchools ranking.
- Public-school students
- 59,070
- NCES CCD 2024-2025, regular and charter districts in this metro.
- Pupil–teacher ratio
- 18.3
- 3,228 teachers across 6 districts and 106 schools.
- Districts / schools
- 6 / 106
- Open regular, component and charter LEAs geocoded to this CBSA.
- Bedrooms you set
- 1
- A household this size usually wants a studio.
- Childcare in this setup
- $0
- No kids under 5 in the current household, so this is $0.
- Leftover with current kids
- $2,116
- After tax, rent and everything else.
Largest public school districts
The 6 biggest open regular and charter districts geocoded to the Mobile metro, ranked by students enrolled. District websites are the direct source for enrollment boundaries, calendars and programs.
- Mobile County
Mobile
- Students
- 49,946
- Schools
- 92
- Pupil–teacher
- 17.7
- Saraland City
Saraland
- Students
- 3,514
- Schools
- 4
- Pupil–teacher
- 17.6
- Chickasaw City
Chickasaw
- Students
- 2,679
- Schools
- 5
- Pupil–teacher
- 41.9
- Satsuma City
Satsuma
- Students
- 1,534
- Schools
- 2
- Pupil–teacher
- 18.5
- MAEF Public Charter Schools
MOBILE
- Students
- 835
- Schools
- 2
- Pupil–teacher
- 32.1
- Covenant Academy of Mobile
Mobile
- Students
- 327
- Schools
- 1
- Pupil–teacher
- 16.4
Source: NCES CCD 2024–25, LEA directory, membership and staff files. Pupil–teacher is students divided by reported teacher FTE.
Public schools by level
- Primary
- 60
- Elementary grades
- Middle
- 20
- Middle or junior high
- High
- 21
- Secondary grades
- Other
- 4
- K–12, ungraded, alternative
105 open public schools in the NCES CCD 2024–25 school directory, grouped by the level NCES assigns from grades offered.
Where the Mobile metro sits
Roughly the core of the Mobile, AL metro area. Drag to look around, or open the larger map to search for a specific school or neighbourhood.
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If this were a family of four
Two adults, two kids, one under five, three bedrooms: leftover in Mobile would be -$105 a month, with $1,082 going to childcare. Run that household on the paycheck page →
Enrollment and staffing: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-2025, joined to metros with NCES EDGE LEA geocodes. Childcare is a national baseline scaled by this metro's cost index — not a daycare quote. No test-score rankings.