Central High School

Set in Phenix City, Alabama, Central High School is a sizable four-year high school, one of the schools within Phenix City. It hosts 1,579 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 682 students each, so Central High School sits 132% bigger than that benchmark.

Central High School is one of 11 schools operated by Phenix City, a district that educates 7,198 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Central High School lists that Black students make up the majority at 64%; the rest looks like 21% White, 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Russell County as a whole is about 46% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Central High School has 85 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.2:1, putting Central High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Central High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.0%, the actual is 26.0%, a residual of -17.0 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Russell County) reports that median household income runs about $51,197, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. In all, Russell County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,127 students), of which Central High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Central Freshman Academy, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Central High School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 38.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Central High School has increased 23%, going from 1,285 students in 2018 to 1,579 in 2025.

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