Ohatchee High School

Ohatchee High School is a secondary school of small scale in Ohatchee, Alabama, overseen by Calhoun County, instructing 391 students in grades 7 through 12. That puts it 43% leaner than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 682 students.

Calhoun County comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 7,997 students; Ohatchee High School is among them.

Demographically, Ohatchee High School records that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 3% Black, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Calhoun County (around 58%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Ohatchee High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 51.6%; this one comes in at 32.2%, -19.4 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Calhoun County) reports that median household earnings sit near $55,029, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Ohatchee High School is one of 38 public schools in Calhoun County (combined enrollment of about 16,686 students).

Ohatchee Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 7 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Ohatchee High School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Ohatchee High School's enrollment has decreased 13% since 2018, when it stood at 449 (now 391).

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