Calhoun High School

Calhoun High School operates as a minimally staffed secondary school in Letohatchee, Alabama, run under Lowndes County. Current enrollment sits at 186 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 73% below the state mean of about 682.

Lowndes County comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 1,109 students; Calhoun High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Calhoun High School shows that nearly all students (94%) are Black. Beyond that, the school lists 4% White, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Lowndes County as a whole is about 74% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Calhoun High School reports 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.2:1 average. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Calhoun High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.5%, the actual is 4.1%, a residual of -15.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Lowndes County) logs that median household earnings sit near $37,052, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Lowndes County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,109 students), Calhoun High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Fort Deposit Elementary School, roughly 5.0 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Calhoun High School at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 37.2%.

Calhoun High School operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 10%: 206 students in 2018 compared to 186 in 2025.

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