Cherokee High School

Cherokee High School operates as a rural-scale four-year high school in Cherokee, Alabama, overseen by Colbert County. Current enrollment sits at 206 students spanning grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 682 students each, so Cherokee High School sits 70% below that benchmark.

Cherokee High School is one of 8 schools operated by Colbert County, a district that educates 2,573 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cherokee High School logs that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 9% Black, 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, Cherokee High School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. The state averages around 17.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Colbert County's rate of about 50%.

With demographic context factored in, Cherokee High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.9%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Colbert County shows the typical household earns roughly $60,628 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Colbert County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,178 students), Cherokee High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Cherokee Elementary School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cherokee High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 35.4%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Cherokee High School's enrollment has fell 24% since 2018, when it stood at 272 (now 206). Black enrollment moved from 14% to 9% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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