Montevallo High School

Montevallo High School operates as a cozy four-year high school in Montevallo, Alabama, overseen by Shelby County. Current enrollment sits at 485 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 29% smaller than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 682 students.

Montevallo High School is one of 29 schools operated by Shelby County, a district that teaches 20,638 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Montevallo High School records that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 23% Black. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Shelby County's rate of about 42%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Montevallo High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 20.2%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Shelby County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,961 per year, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Shelby County runs 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,120 students), of which Montevallo High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Montevallo Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Montevallo High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 35.8%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 17%: 415 students in 2018 compared to 485 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 19% to 35%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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