Park Crossing High School

Located at 8000 Park Crossing, in Montgomery, Alabama, Park Crossing High School is a moderately sized 9-12 campus that serves 882 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Montgomery County. Enrollment runs roughly 29% larger than the state mean of about 682.

Within Montgomery County, which oversees 51 schools and 26,958 students, Park Crossing High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Park Crossing High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (87%); the rest comes out to 5% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.2:1, putting Park Crossing High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 56% of students at Park Crossing High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Montgomery County (around 67%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Park Crossing High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 43.1%; actual is 12.5%, a gap of -30.6 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household earnings sit near $59,386, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. In all, Montgomery County runs 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,131 students), of which Park Crossing High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wilson Elementary School, around 1.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Park Crossing High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Park Crossing High School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 36.6%.

Park Crossing High School operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Park Crossing High School's enrollment has fell 29% since 2018, when it stood at 1,249 (now 882). Over the same period, the Black share grew from 83% to 87%.

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