Fairhope High School

Fairhope High School, a roomy four-year high school in Fairhope, Alabama, operated by Baldwin County, instructs 1,536 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 682 students per school, that is 125% bigger than typical.

Baldwin County runs 42 schools in total, collectively educating 31,965 students. Fairhope High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Fairhope High School shows that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 9% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Fairhope High School lists 102 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.2:1 average. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Baldwin County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Fairhope High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.0%; this one delivers 65.1%.

In the surrounding community, Baldwin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,775 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Baldwin County's 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,975 students), Fairhope High School is one campus in the mix.

Fairhope Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fairhope High School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 38.5%.

Fairhope High School operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 5%: 1,616 students in 2018 compared to 1,536 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.