Priceville High School

Set in Decatur, Alabama, Priceville High School is a small 9-12 campus, operated by Morgan County. It teaches 506 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 682 students each, so Priceville High School sits 26% leaner than that benchmark.

Priceville High School is one of 16 schools operated by Morgan County, a district that works with 7,619 students overall.

Demographically, Priceville High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Beyond that, the school logs 6% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Morgan County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.2:1 average. Around 27% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Morgan County (around 56%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Priceville High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 64.1%; this one comes in at 42.9%, -21.3 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Morgan County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,845, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Morgan County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,204 students), of which Priceville High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Priceville Elementary School, around 1.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Priceville High School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.2%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Priceville High School's enrollment has grew 7% since 2018, when it stood at 473 (now 506). The White share of enrollment shrank from 92% to 86% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 in 2025.

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