Hackleburg High School

Located at 185 School St, in Hackleburg, Alabama, Hackleburg High School is an one-room-style 9-12 campus that hosts 265 students (grades 6 through 12), overseen by Marion County. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 682 students each, so Hackleburg High School sits 61% smaller than that benchmark.

Hackleburg High School is one of 10 schools operated by Marion County, a district that hosts 3,302 students overall.

Demographically, Hackleburg High School shows that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.6:1. The state averages around 17.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Hackleburg High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.7%, the actual is 44.1%, a residual of +2.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Marion County shows the typical household earns roughly $50,088 per year, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Marion County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,506 students), of which Hackleburg High School is one.

Hackleburg Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hackleburg High School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 33.1%.

Hackleburg High School operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 40%: 189 students in 2018 compared to 265 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 98% to 89%. Class-load math has widened: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 in 2025.

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