Opelika High School

Opelika High School is a high-enrollment four-year high school in Opelika, Alabama, run under Opelika City. The school caters to 1,590 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 682 students each, so Opelika High School sits 133% above that benchmark.

Opelika City runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,377 students. Opelika High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Opelika High School reports that the largest single group is Black at 54%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 27% White, 15% Hispanic. By comparison, Lee County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 94 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 63% of students at Opelika High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Lee County's rate of about 48%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Opelika High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.8%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Lee County indicate median household income runs about $65,824, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Lee County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,812 students), of which Opelika High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Fox Run School, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Opelika High School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 36.1%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Opelika High School's enrollment has edged up 27% since 2018, when it stood at 1,248 (now 1,590). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 8% to 15% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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