Gulf Shores High School

Gulf Shores High School operates as a medium-sized senior high in Gulf Shores, Alabama, one of the schools within Gulf Shores City. Current enrollment sits at 927 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 682 students each, so Gulf Shores High School sits 36% above that benchmark.

Gulf Shores City runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 2,748 students. Gulf Shores High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Gulf Shores High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). The remainder breaks down as 8% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% multiracial. Compared to Baldwin County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Baldwin County (around 40%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Gulf Shores High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.4%, the actual is 49.1%, a residual of -14.3 points.

In the area at large, Baldwin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,775 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Baldwin County runs 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,975 students), of which Gulf Shores High School is one.

Gulf Shores Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Gulf Shores High School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 35.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.