Rogers High School

Rogers High School is a low-enrollment high school in Florence, Alabama, one of the schools within Lauderdale County. The school serves 510 students in grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 682 students per school, that is 25% below typical.

Lauderdale County comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 7,952 students; Rogers High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rogers High School reports that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 3% multiracial. By comparison, Lauderdale County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Rogers High School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.2:1, putting Rogers High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Lauderdale County's rate of about 47%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Rogers High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 57.4%; actual is 32.0%, a gap of -25.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Lauderdale County indicate median household income runs about $62,649, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Lauderdale County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,526 students), of which Rogers High School is one.

Rogers Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Rogers High School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 33.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 58%: 1,213 students in 2018 compared to 510 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

On this page, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.