Lee High School

Lee High School operates as a medium-sized four-year high school in Huntsville, Alabama, run under Huntsville City. Current enrollment sits at 877 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 29% above the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 682 students.

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

In terms of who attends, Lee High School logs that Black students make up the majority at 66%. The remainder reads as 16% White, 13% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 24% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.1:1. The state averages around 17.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 60% of students at Lee High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Madison County's rate of about 41%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lee High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 40.6%; this one comes in at 20.9%, -19.7 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Madison County put median household income runs about $86,499, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Madison County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), of which Lee High School is one.

The closest other public school is New Century Technology High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lee High School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lee High School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.6%.

Lee High School operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Lee High School's enrollment has expanded 13% since 2018, when it stood at 776 (now 877). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 8% to 13% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

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