Collinsville High School

Located at 802 S Valley Ave, in Collinsville, Alabama, Collinsville High School is a reasonably sized unified-grade school that teaches 906 students (grades pre-K through 12), overseen by DeKalb County. That puts it 35% above the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 673 students.

Across the 12 schools in DeKalb County (8,769 students total), Collinsville High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Collinsville High School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 60% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 28% White, 5% Native American, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, DeKalb County as a whole is about 17% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, DeKalb County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Collinsville High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.7%, the actual is 24.1%, a residual of -5.6 points.

Across the wider county, census data for DeKalb County shows median household earnings sit near $51,204, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Collinsville High School is one of 20 public schools in DeKalb County (combined enrollment of about 12,277 students).

Nearest neighbor: Sand Rock High School, around 5.9 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Collinsville High School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 35.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 929 students in 2018 compared to 906 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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