Career Academies of Decatur

Career Academies of Decatur is a rural-scale four-year high school in Decatur, Alabama, one of the schools within Decatur City. The school hosts 269 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 61% smaller than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 682 students.

Career Academies of Decatur is one of 19 schools operated by Decatur City, a district that educates 8,902 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Career Academies of Decatur logs that 41% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 30% White, 24% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Career Academies of Decatur has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.0:1. The state averages around 17.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 73% of students at Career Academies of Decatur qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Morgan County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Morgan County) records that the typical household earns roughly $68,845 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Morgan County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,204 students), Career Academies of Decatur is one campus in the mix.

Austin Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

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