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Enrollment
1,648
High
DISTRICT 970 · STATE 682
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SHELBY COUNTY·NCES 010303001189
Oak Mountain High School
5476 Caldwell Mill Rd, Birmingham, AL 35242 · (205) 682-5200 · Shelby County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,648 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
18.5:1
89 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 17.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
384 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 58%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 417 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 416 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 397 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 418 | 25% |
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
49.6%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
52.2%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
Source: ACAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
52.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.0%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Alabama's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Oak Mountain High School
Oak Mountain High School's state test result (52.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Mountain High School this school | 1,648 | 23.3% | 52.7% |
| Bob Jones High School Madison | 2,048 | 25.4% | 48.5% |
| Spain Park High School Hoover | 1,472 | 31.2% | 49.8% |
| Chelsea High School Chelsea | 1,235 | 23.5% | 49.2% |
| Homewood High School Homewood | 1,333 | 27.9% | 64.8% |
| Helena High School Helena | 1,383 | 26.4% | 40.8% |
Matched among Alabama high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Oak Mountain High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Shelby County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.7% | #14 of 305 | #1 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.2% | #13 of 305 | #1 of 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.6% | #56 of 305 | #3 of 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,648 | #13 of 319 | #2 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.5:1 | #233 of 307 | #10 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.9% | #148 of 307 | #8 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.3% | #306 of 317 | #10 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.8% | #95 of 130 | #6 of 7 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,648
+117 (+8%) vs 2020
+29% since 2000-01, when it was 1,277
Student : Teacher
18.5:1
was 18.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,648 | 89 | 18.5:1 | 23% (384) |
| 2023-24 | 1,652 | 87.8 | 18.8:1 | 24% (397) |
| 2022-23 | 1,561 | 85.8 | 18.2:1 | 22% (348) |
| 2020-21 | 1,531 | 85 | 18.0:1 | 13% (198) |
| 2017-18 | 1,572 | 89 | 17.7:1 | 11% (170) |
| 2015-16 | 1,601 | 88 | 18.2:1 | 10% (165) |
| 2010-11 | 1,686 | 97 | 17.4:1 | 9% (146) |
| 2000-01 | 1,277 | 72 | 17.7:1 | 1% (12) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oak Mountain High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (1,572 to 1,648); teachers unchanged (89 to 89).
About Oak Mountain High School
In Birmingham, Alabama, Oak Mountain High School is a high-enrollment high school. Classes run from 9 through 12, and the school has 1,648 students. The average for high schools in Alabama is about 682 students, so this school is 142% bigger than average.
Oak Mountain High School falls under Shelby County, which has 29 schools enrolling 20,638 students.
Oak Mountain High School's enrollment is 73% White. The next largest groups are 10% Black, 10% Hispanic, and 5% Asian. The White share in Shelby County as a whole is similar, at about 76%. The chance that two students picked at random at Oak Mountain High School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 45%.
The school reports 89 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 18.5 students per teacher. The 17.2:1 average for high schools in Alabama is lower than this school's figure. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 23%. Among public schools in Shelby County, the average eligibility rate is 42%.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Oak Mountain High School is 14.3 points below the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 52.7% actual, 67.0% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Alabama.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Shelby County show that median household income is about $97,961, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 48 public schools in Shelby County, with a combined enrollment of about 35,120.
The closest public school to Oak Mountain High School is Oak Mountain Intermediate School, about 0.2 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Oak Mountain High School comes in 7th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 8%, from 1,531 to 1,648.
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Shelby County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
230,211
Census ACS
Median income
$97,961
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
48
35,120 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Shelby County
- Helena High SchoolHigh · 1,383 students
- Chelsea High SchoolHigh · 1,235 students
- Oak Mountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,168 students
- Calera HighHigh · 1,018 students
- Helena MiddleMiddle · 957 students
- Helena Intermediate SchoolElementary · 955 students
Other schools in Birmingham
- Oak Mountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,168 students
- Huffman High SchoolMagnetHigh · 1,094 students
- Parker High SchoolHigh · 942 students
- Fultondale High SchoolHigh · 848 students
- Glen Iris Elementary SchoolElementary · 827 students
- Chalkville Elementary SchoolElementary · 818 students
Nearby schools
- Oak Mountain Intermediate School0.2 mi · 636
- Oak Mountain Elementary School1.2 mi · 675
- Oak Mountain Middle School1.3 mi · 1,168
- Spain Park High School1.8 mi · 1,472
- Berry Middle School2.0 mi · 1,058
- Rocky Ridge Elementary School3.5 mi · 577
Frequently asked questions
About Oak Mountain High SchoolHow many students attend Oak Mountain High School?
Oak Mountain High School enrolls approximately 1,648 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Oak Mountain High School serve?
Oak Mountain High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at Oak Mountain High School?
Approximately 18.5:1 students per teacher at Oak Mountain High School.
What is the student diversity at Oak Mountain High School?
Student demographics at Oak Mountain High School are roughly 73% White, 10% Hispanic, 10% Black, 5% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Oak Mountain High School in?
Oak Mountain High School is part of Shelby County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.