Northridge High School

Northridge High School is one of the large secondary schools in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, overseen by Tuscaloosa City, with 1,153 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 69% above the state mean of about 682.

Tuscaloosa City comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 11,230 students; Northridge High School is among them.

On demographics, Northridge High School shows that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 36% Black, 6% Hispanic, 4% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.2:1, putting Northridge High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Tuscaloosa County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Northridge High School is in the bottom 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 59.4%; Northridge High School posts 41.2%, -18.2 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Tuscaloosa County indicate median household earnings sit near $66,231, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Tuscaloosa County's 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,508 students), Northridge High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Verner Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Northridge High School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.0%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Northridge High School's enrollment has expanded 15% since 2018, when it stood at 1,002 (now 1,153). Class-load math has rose: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 in 2025.

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