Anniston High School

Anniston High School is one of the intimate secondary schools in Anniston, Alabama, operated by Anniston City, with 498 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 682 students each, so Anniston High School sits 27% below that benchmark.

Anniston City comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,821 students; Anniston High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Anniston High School reports that 84% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% White. By comparison, Calhoun County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Anniston High School reports 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.2:1 average. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Calhoun County runs at roughly 58%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Anniston High School is in the bottom 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 26.6%; Anniston High School posts 2.4%, -24.2 points below that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Calhoun County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $55,029 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Calhoun County's 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,686 students), Anniston High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Cobb Preparatory Academy, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Anniston High School. On composite proficiency, Anniston High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.4%.

Anniston High School operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 6%: 470 students in 2018 compared to 498 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 91% to 84% over that span.

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