Lamar County HighIntermediate

Lamar County HighIntermediate is a cozy K-12 campus in Vernon, Alabama, one of the schools within Lamar County. The school hosts 544 students in grades 4 through 12.

Across the 4 schools in Lamar County (2,129 students total), Lamar County HighIntermediate accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Lamar County HighIntermediate lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%); the rest breaks down as 10% Black, 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Lamar County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Lamar County HighIntermediate has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Lamar County HighIntermediate tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 58% of students at Lamar County HighIntermediate qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Lamar County HighIntermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.0%, the actual is 51.5%, a residual of +9.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Lamar County indicate the typical household earns roughly $50,000 per year, roughly 12% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Lamar County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,129 students), of which Lamar County HighIntermediate is one.

Nearest neighbor: Vernon Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. On composite proficiency, Lamar County HighIntermediate comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.0%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 18%: 662 students in 2018 compared to 544 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.