Lanier Senior High School

Lanier Senior High School is a modestly sized four-year high school in Montgomery, Alabama, overseen by Montgomery County. The school educates 517 students in grades 10 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 24% below the state mean of about 682.

Montgomery County runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 26,958 students. Lanier Senior High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Lanier Senior High School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (94%); the rest reads as 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 59% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) records that median household income runs about $59,386, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Lanier Senior High School is one of 60 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 31,131 students).

Nixon Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lanier Senior High School.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Trend over the last 6 years. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at Lanier Senior High School has contracted 49%, going from 1,008 students in 2018 to 517 in 2024. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 99% to 94%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2024.

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