Aliceville High School

Aliceville High School is a four-year high school of tight-knit scale in Aliceville, Alabama, one of the schools within Pickens County, hosting 338 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 682 students each, so Aliceville High School sits 50% smaller than that benchmark.

Pickens County runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,210 students. Aliceville High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Aliceville High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (98%). That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Pickens County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Aliceville High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.4%, the actual is 12.2%, a residual of -12.3 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Pickens County put the typical household earns roughly $46,274 per year, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Aliceville High School is one of 7 public schools in Pickens County (combined enrollment of about 2,210 students).

Aliceville Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Aliceville High School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 37.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Aliceville High School has climbed 30%, going from 260 students in 2018 to 338 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 26.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.