Fayetteville High School

As a medium-sized combined-grade school in Sylacauga, Alabama, Fayetteville High School serves 580 students from grades pre-K through 12, part of Talladega County.

Talladega County comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 7,321 students; Fayetteville High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Fayetteville High School records that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 4% Black, 2% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Fayetteville High School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Around 37% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Talladega County (around 62%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fayetteville High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.9%, the actual is 52.2%, a residual of -4.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Talladega County shows the typical household earns roughly $57,776 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, Talladega County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,973 students), of which Fayetteville High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wilsonville Elementary School, around 7.7 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fayetteville High School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 36.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Fayetteville High School's enrollment has contracted 17% since 2018, when it stood at 698 (now 580). The White share of enrollment shrank from 95% to 90% over that span.

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