East Lawrence High School

East Lawrence High School is a four-year high school of compact scale in Trinity, Alabama, overseen by Lawrence County, enrolling 408 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 682 students per school, that is 40% below typical.

Lawrence County runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 4,676 students. East Lawrence High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, East Lawrence High School records that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment; the rest looks like 12% Black, 8% Hispanic, 4% Native American. That composition is broadly in line with Lawrence County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, East Lawrence High School reports 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.2:1 average. Roughly 63% of students at East Lawrence High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), East Lawrence High School is in the bottom 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 38.2%; East Lawrence High School posts 13.3%, -24.9 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Lawrence County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,071 per year, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Lawrence County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,676 students), East Lawrence High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lawrence County Developmental, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts East Lawrence High School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 35.6%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 16%: 351 students in 2018 compared to 408 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 3% to 8%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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