Minor High School

Minor High School is a senior high of middle-of-the-pack scale in Adamsville, Alabama, run under Jefferson County, serveing 978 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 682 students each, so Minor High School sits 43% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 55 schools in Jefferson County (35,444 students total), Minor High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Minor High School shows that 84% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 10% Hispanic, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 42% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Minor High School shows 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. The state averages about 17.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Minor High School is in the bottom 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 31.2%; Minor High School posts 8.5%, -22.6 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,388 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Jefferson County's 181 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students), Minor High School is one campus in the mix.

UW Clemon Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Minor High School at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 39.6%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 3%: 1,007 students in 2018 compared to 978 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 2% to 10% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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