Dora High School

Dora High School is one of the low-enrollment senior highs in Dora, Alabama, part of Walker County, with 476 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 682 students per school, that is 30% leaner than typical.

Walker County runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 7,091 students. Dora High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Dora High School records that nearly all students (86%) are White. The remainder consists of 10% Black, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Dora High School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Dora High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.4%, the actual is 26.1%, a residual of -13.3 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Walker County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $56,509 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Dora High School is one of 24 public schools in Walker County (combined enrollment of about 10,041 students).

Sumiton Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Dora High School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.6%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dora High School has edged down 8%, going from 519 students in 2018 to 476 in 2025.

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