Childersburg High School

Childersburg High School is a secondary school of modestly sized scale in Childersburg, Alabama, operated by Talladega County, instructing 374 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 45% smaller than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 682 students.

Talladega County comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 7,321 students; Childersburg High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Childersburg High School lists that the largest single group is Black, at 58% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 35% White, 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.2:1 average. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Childersburg High School is in the bottom 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.0%; Childersburg High School posts 17.6%, -17.4 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Talladega County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $57,776 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Childersburg High School is one of 33 public schools in Talladega County (combined enrollment of about 10,973 students).

The closest other public school is Childersburg Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Childersburg High School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Childersburg High School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 36.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. Childersburg High School's enrollment has shrank 8% since 2018, when it stood at 408 (now 374). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 40% to 35%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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