Brindlee Mountain High School

Located at 994 Scant City Road, in Guntersville, Alabama, Brindlee Mountain High School is a close-knit high school that serves 496 students (grades 6 through 12), one of the schools within Marshall County. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 682 students each, so Brindlee Mountain High School sits 27% leaner than that benchmark.

Marshall County comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 6,494 students; Brindlee Mountain High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Brindlee Mountain High School records that nearly all students (88%) are White. Other groups include 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Brindlee Mountain High School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.2:1, putting Brindlee Mountain High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 58% of students at Brindlee Mountain High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Brindlee Mountain High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.5%; this one delivers 31.5%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Marshall County put median household earnings sit near $62,571, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Brindlee Mountain High School is one of 37 public schools in Marshall County (combined enrollment of about 19,416 students).

Brindlee Mountain Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Brindlee Mountain High School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.5%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 21%: 626 students in 2018 compared to 496 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

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