Pinson Valley High School

Set in Pinson, Alabama, Pinson Valley High School is a sizable secondary school, part of Jefferson County. It hosts 1,025 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 50% above the state mean of about 682.

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

On the student-mix side, Pinson Valley High School shows that 53% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 31% Hispanic, 14% White, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

On the resource side, On paper, Pinson Valley High School has 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.2:1 average. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Jefferson County (around 52%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Pinson Valley High School is in the bottom 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.6%; Pinson Valley High School posts 7.6%, -28.1 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) logs that median household income runs about $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. Pinson Valley High School is one of 181 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students).

Rudd Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pinson Valley High School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.2%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 3%: 995 students in 2018 compared to 1,025 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 36% to 14% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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