Jemison High School

Jemison High School operates as a mid-sized four-year high school in Huntsville, Alabama, operated by Huntsville City. Current enrollment sits at 858 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 26% above the state mean of about 682.

Jemison High School is one of 44 schools operated by Huntsville City, a district that enrolls 24,222 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Jemison High School reports that Black students make up the majority at 72%. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 5% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Madison County as a whole is about 24% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Madison County's rate of about 41%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jemison High School is in the bottom 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.5%; Jemison High School posts 6.7%, -26.8 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Madison County shows the typical household earns roughly $86,499 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Madison County's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), Jemison High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Ronald McNair 78, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Jemison High School at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 37.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 6%: 807 students in 2018 compared to 858 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 82% to 72% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 today.

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