Clements High School

Clements High School is a close-knit senior high in Athens, Alabama, part of Limestone County. The school works with 525 students in grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 23% below the state mean of about 682.

Limestone County runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 16,694 students. Clements High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Clements High School logs that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 19% Hispanic, 8% Black, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Limestone County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 66% of students at Clements High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Limestone County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Clements High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.5%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Limestone County) records that the typical household earns roughly $83,629 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Limestone County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,258 students), of which Clements High School is one.

Blue Springs Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. 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 Clements High School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 36.0%.

Clements High School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Clements High School's enrollment has fell 3% since 2018, when it stood at 540 (now 525). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 10% to 19% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

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