Holt High School

Holt High School is a secondary school of tight-knit scale in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, part of Tuscaloosa County, enrolling 456 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 33% smaller than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 682 students.

Tuscaloosa County comprises 35 schools with combined enrollment of 19,278 students; Holt High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Holt High School logs that 42% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 36% Hispanic, 21% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. The state averages around 17.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Tuscaloosa County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Holt High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.1%; this one delivers 10.1%.

Zooming out to the county, Tuscaloosa County reports that median household income runs about $66,231, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Holt High School is one of 58 public schools in Tuscaloosa County (combined enrollment of about 30,508 students).

Holt Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Holt High School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 18%: 388 students in 2018 compared to 456 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 15% to 36% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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