Oak Grove High School

Oak Grove High School, a middle-of-the-pack secondary school in Bessemer, Alabama, operated by Jefferson County, enrolls 777 students, covering grades 6 through 12.

Jefferson County comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 35,444 students; Oak Grove High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Oak Grove High School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). The remainder comes out to 3% Black, 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 48% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.5:1. The state averages around 17.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Jefferson County's rate of about 52%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Oak Grove High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 54.9%; actual is 29.9%, a gap of -24.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) records that median household earnings sit near $66,388, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jefferson County runs 181 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students), of which Oak Grove High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Oak Grove Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Oak Grove High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.4%.

Oak Grove High School operates from a rural location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Oak Grove High School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 786 (now 777).

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