Daleville High School

Daleville High School is a 9-12 campus of compact scale in Daleville, Alabama, run under Daleville City, instructing 347 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 682 students each, so Daleville High School sits 49% smaller than that benchmark.

Daleville High School is one of 3 schools operated by Daleville City, a district that hosts 1,156 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Daleville High School reports that 37% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 29% Black, 25% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Dale County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Daleville High School has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.2:1, putting Daleville High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 68% 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 demographically-adjusted basis, Daleville High School is in the bottom 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 34.4%; Daleville High School posts 12.3%, -22.0 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Dale County shows median household earnings sit near $54,963, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Daleville High School is one of 18 public schools in Dale County (combined enrollment of about 6,437 students).

The closest other public school is Daleville Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Daleville High School. On composite proficiency, Daleville High School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 35.4%.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Daleville High School has fell 19%, going from 430 students in 2018 to 347 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 13% to 25% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 today.

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