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What's the most underrated thing about Lee High School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
877
High
DISTRICT 1,112 · STATE 682
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HUNTSVILLE CITY·NCES 010180000636
Lee High School
2500 Meridian Street, Huntsville, AL 35811 · (256) 428-8150 · Madison County
GRADES 09–12HIGH12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL877 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 30% of Alabama public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Alabama public high schools
Student : Teacher
18.1:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.4:1 · STATE 17.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
524 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 58%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 247 | 28% |
| Grade 10 | 226 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 220 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 184 | 21% |
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
25.0%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
13.9%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
Source: ACAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of AL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
20.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.6%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 41% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Lee High School
Lee High School's state test result (20.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lee High School this school | 877 | 59.7% | 20.9% |
| Central Freshman Academy Phenix City | 513 | 61.2% | N/A |
| Hueytown High School Hueytown | 1,200 | 66.0% | 12.4% |
| Central High School Phenix City | 1,579 | 56.4% | 26.0% |
| McAdory High School McCalla | 1,259 | 52.7% | 6.9% |
| Calera High Calera | 1,018 | 56.9% | 22.0% |
Matched among Alabama high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Lee High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Madison County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.9% | #202 of 305 | #10 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.9% | #196 of 305 | #10 of 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.0% | #190 of 305 | #10 of 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 877 | #80 of 319 | #8 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.1:1 | #211 of 307 | #8 of 13 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.3% | #112 of 307 | #10 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.7% | #127 of 317 | #2 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.0% | #52 of 130 | #3 of 8 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
877
+152 (+21%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 1,080
Student : Teacher
18.1:1
was 14.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 877 | 48.5 | 18.1:1 | 60% (524) |
| 2023-24 | 861 | 48.2 | 17.9:1 | 77% (661) |
| 2022-23 | 840 | 45.5 | 18.4:1 | 77% (644) |
| 2020-21 | 725 | 49 | 14.8:1 | 77% (557) |
| 2017-18 | 776 | 51.5 | 15.1:1 | 77% (596) |
| 2015-16 | 766 | 51 | 15.0:1 | 48% (364) |
| 2010-11 | 806 | 51 | 15.8:1 | 64% (513) |
| 2000-01 | 919 | 61 | 15.1:1 | 35% (324) |
| 1990-91 | 1,080 | 66 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lee High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 13% (776 to 877); teachers down 6% (51.5 to 48.5).
About Lee High School
As a mid-sized high school, Lee High School serves students in Huntsville, Alabama. It enrolls 877 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 9 through 12. That puts enrollment 29% bigger than the 682-student average for high schools in Alabama.
Huntsville City counts 44 schools and 24,222 students, including Lee High School.
The share of Black students at Lee High School is 66%, a majority. After that, the student body is 16% White, 13% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Madison County is about 24% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 52, compared with 70 nationally.
A staff of 48.5 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 18.1:1. Across high schools in Alabama, the average ratio is 17.2:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 60%. The gap from the 41% average for public schools in Madison County is 19 points.
Lee High School holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 30% of Alabama public high schools.
Compared with Alabama schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Lee High School scores 19.7 points lower than predicted. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 20.9%; the prediction is 40.6%.
Madison County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $86,499 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 46% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Public schools in Madison County number 89, with about 55,800 students.
Among nearby public schools, New Century Technology High School is closest at less than a tenth of a mile. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Lee High School. Lee High School places 7th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES assigns Lee High School the locale City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 21% rise, from 725 to 877. The ratio was 14.8:1 in 2020-21 and 18.1:1 in 2024-25.
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Madison County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
405,718
Census ACS
Median income
$86,499
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
89
55,800 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Huntsville City
- Virgil Grissom High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Huntsville High SchoolHigh · 1,807 students
- Providence ElementaryElementary · 1,152 students
- GoldsmithSchiffman ElementaryElementary · 935 students
- Columbia High SchoolHigh · 916 students
- Jemison High SchoolHigh · 858 students
Other schools in Huntsville
- Virgil Grissom High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Huntsville High SchoolHigh · 1,807 students
- Providence ElementaryElementary · 1,152 students
- Monrovia Middle SchoolMiddle · 988 students
- Columbia High SchoolHigh · 916 students
- Riverton Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 872 students
Other Lee High schools
5 other US public schools in 6 states are named Lee High. Lee High School is the 2nd largest of the 6.
- Lee High SchoolBAYTOWN, TX · 1,747 students
- Lee HighJonesville, VA · 803 students
- Lee High SchoolWYOMING, MI · 537 students
- LEE HIGH SCHOOLMARIANNA, AR · 281 students
- Lee HighBishopville, SC · 5 students
Nearby schools
- New Century Technology High School0.0 mi · 366
- Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School0.8 mi · 458
- Chapman Elementary School1.1 mi · 167
- Chapman Middle School1.1 mi · 315
- Lakewood Elementary School1.4 mi · 397
- Montview Elementary School1.6 mi · 213
Frequently asked questions
About Lee High SchoolHow large is Lee High School?
Lee High School enrolls approximately 877 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Lee High School serve?
Lee High School serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does Lee High School have?
Lee High School employs 49 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Lee High School?
Student demographics at Lee High School are roughly 16% White, 13% Hispanic, 66% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Lee High School public or private?
Lee High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Huntsville City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.