Moody High School

Moody High School is a senior high of middle-of-the-pack scale in Moody, Alabama, one of the schools within St Clair County, educateing 708 students in grades 9 through 12.

Across the 18 schools in St Clair County (9,658 students total), Moody High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Moody High School logs that White students make up the majority at 70%. Other groups include 14% Black, 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.2:1 average. Roughly 36% of students at Moody High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below St. Clair County's rate of about 49%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Moody High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 57.6%; actual is 35.5%, a gap of -22.1 points.

Around the school, St. Clair County reports that median household income runs about $77,463, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, St. Clair County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,737 students), of which Moody High School is one.

Moody Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Moody High School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.1%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Moody High School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 696 (now 708). White enrollment moved from 80% to 70% across the same window.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.