Johnson Abernathy Graetz High School

Johnson Abernathy Graetz High School operates as a well-populated 9-12 campus in Montgomery, Alabama, overseen by Montgomery County. Current enrollment sits at 1,587 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 133% above the state mean of about 682.

Within Montgomery County, which oversees 51 schools and 26,958 students, Johnson Abernathy Graetz High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Johnson Abernathy Graetz High School records that 84% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 13% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Johnson Abernathy Graetz High School has 86 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.2:1 average. Roughly 76% of students at Johnson Abernathy Graetz High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Montgomery County's rate of about 67%.

With demographic context factored in, Johnson Abernathy Graetz High School is in the bottom 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 28.8%; Johnson Abernathy Graetz High School posts 7.1%, -21.6 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Montgomery County shows the typical household earns roughly $59,386 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Montgomery County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,131 students), Johnson Abernathy Graetz High School is one campus in the mix.

Dannelly Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Johnson Abernathy Graetz High School at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 37.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Johnson Abernathy Graetz High School's enrollment has fell 10% since 2018, when it stood at 1,760 (now 1,587). The Black share of enrollment declined from 91% to 84% over that span.

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