Etowah High School

Etowah High School is a four-year high school of modestly sized scale in Attalla, Alabama, operated by Attalla City, teacheing 453 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 34% below the state mean of about 682.

Attalla City runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,460 students. Etowah High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Etowah High School lists that 67% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 14% Black, 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

In terms of school funding signals, Etowah High School lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.2:1 average. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Etowah High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.4%, the actual is 22.5%, a residual of -15.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for Etowah County shows median household earnings sit near $54,563, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Etowah County's 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,139 students), Etowah High School is one campus in the mix.

Etowah Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Etowah High School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.0%.

Etowah High School operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 24%: 593 students in 2018 compared to 453 in 2025.

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