Ashville High School

Set in Ashville, Alabama, Ashville High School is a cozy secondary school, one of the schools within St Clair County. It educates 378 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 45% leaner than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 682 students.

Across the 18 schools in St Clair County (9,658 students total), Ashville High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Ashville High School lists that nearly all students (81%) are White. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with St. Clair County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Ashville High School logs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.8:1. The state averages about 17.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 53% of students at Ashville High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Ashville High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.5%; actual is 24.6%, a gap of -20.9 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for St. Clair County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,463, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Clair County's 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,737 students), Ashville High School is one campus in the mix.

Ashville Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Ashville High School. On composite proficiency, Ashville High School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ashville High School has fell 17%, going from 454 students in 2018 to 378 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

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