Athens Renaissance School

Athens Renaissance School is a mid-sized combined-grade school in Athens, Alabama, run under Athens City. The school educates 606 students in grades K through 12.

Within Athens City, which oversees 9 schools and 5,405 students, Athens Renaissance School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Athens Renaissance School logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 6% Black, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

Looking at school resources, Athens Renaissance School lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 28.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Roughly 21% of students at Athens Renaissance School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Limestone County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Around the school, Limestone County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,629 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Athens Renaissance School is one of 27 public schools in Limestone County (combined enrollment of about 24,258 students).

Nearest neighbor: Julian Newman Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a town-center site. Instruction is delivered virtually rather than at a physical campus, and enrollment crosses district lines.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 40%: 1,012 students in 2018 compared to 606 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 90% to 84% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 77.8:1 in 2018 to 28.1:1 today.

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