Buckhorn High School

Set in New Market, Alabama, Buckhorn High School is a large four-year high school, overseen by Madison County. It works with 1,320 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 682 students each, so Buckhorn High School sits 94% bigger than that benchmark.

Buckhorn High School is one of 28 schools operated by Madison County, a district that teaches 20,691 students overall.

Demographically, Buckhorn High School lists that 57% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 22% Black, 8% Hispanic, 6% Native American, 5% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.2:1, putting Buckhorn High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Madison County's rate of about 41%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Buckhorn High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.1%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Madison County put median household earnings sit near $86,499, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Madison County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), of which Buckhorn High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Buckhorn Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Buckhorn High School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 38.0%.

Buckhorn High School operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Buckhorn High School has declined 3%, going from 1,359 students in 2018 to 1,320 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 64% to 57% over that span.

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