Good Hope High School

Set in Cullman, Alabama, Good Hope High School is a cozy senior high, operated by Cullman County. It caters to 485 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 29% smaller than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 682 students.

Cullman County runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 9,901 students. Good Hope High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Good Hope High School logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 39% of students at Good Hope High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Good Hope High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 55.5%; actual is 23.3%, a gap of -32.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Cullman County shows the typical household earns roughly $62,656 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Good Hope High School is one of 34 public schools in Cullman County (combined enrollment of about 13,144 students).

Nearest neighbor: Good Hope Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Good Hope High School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.8%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 5%: 464 students in 2018 compared to 485 in 2025.

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