Cullman High School

Cullman High School operates as a moderately sized secondary school in Cullman, Alabama, part of Cullman City. Current enrollment sits at 1,014 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 682 students each, so Cullman High School sits 49% bigger than that benchmark.

Cullman City comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,243 students; Cullman High School is among them.

On demographics, Cullman High School lists that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 10% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school employs 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.2:1 average. Roughly 29% of students at Cullman High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cullman County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cullman High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 63.2%; this one comes in at 40.6%, -22.6 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, Cullman County reports that median household income runs about $62,656, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Cullman County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,144 students), Cullman High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Cullman Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cullman High School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 37.1%.

Cullman High School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 9%: 928 students in 2018 compared to 1,014 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.