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Enrollment
546
High
DISTRICT 465 · STATE 682
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ETOWAH COUNTY·NCES 010138000505
Sardis High School
1420 Church St, Sardis City, AL 35956 · (256) 593-5221 · Etowah County
GRADES 09–12HIGH32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL546 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 30% of Alabama public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Alabama public high schools
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.0:1 · STATE 17.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
266 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 58%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 146 | 27% |
| Grade 10 | 148 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 128 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 124 | 23% |
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
25.0%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
21.8%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
Source: ACAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of AL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
25.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.6%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-23.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 49% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Sardis High School
Sardis High School's state test result (25.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sardis High School this school | 546 | 48.7% | 25.6% |
| Hamilton High School Hamilton | 449 | 50.1% | 29.4% |
| Haleyville High School Haleyville | 464 | 52.2% | 40.3% |
| Elberta High School Elberta | 735 | 46.7% | 41.6% |
| Cordova High School Cordova | 451 | 51.7% | 37.3% |
| Danville High School Danville | 374 | 48.9% | 21.0% |
Matched among Alabama high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Sardis High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Etowah County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.6% | #172 of 305 | #4 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.8% | #132 of 305 | #2 of 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.0% | #189 of 305 | #5 of 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 546 | #151 of 319 | #3 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #136 of 307 | #2 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.2% | #192 of 307 | #3 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.7% | #205 of 317 | #5 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.4% | #113 of 130 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
546
+8 (+1%) vs 2020
-5% since 1990-91, when it was 573
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 17.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 546 | 32.3 | 16.9:1 | 49% (266) |
| 2023-24 | 585 | 32.3 | 18.1:1 | 63% (370) |
| 2022-23 | 584 | 29.3 | 19.9:1 | 63% (370) |
| 2020-21 | 538 | 30 | 17.9:1 | 49% (266) |
| 2017-18 | 533 | 30.6 | 17.4:1 | 49% (259) |
| 2015-16 | 462 | 26 | 17.8:1 | 48% (223) |
| 2010-11 | 685 | 39 | 17.6:1 | 51% (352) |
| 2000-01 | 532 | 31 | 17.2:1 | 32% (168) |
| 1990-91 | 573 | 26 | 22.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sardis High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (533 to 546); teachers up 6% (30.6 to 32.3).
About Sardis High School
In Sardis City, Alabama, Sardis High School is a small high school. The school runs grades 9 through 12 and enrolls 546 students.
Within Etowah County, Sardis High School is one of 22 schools. The district enrolls 8,739 students.
About 79% of the student body at Sardis High School is White. Other groups include 14% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. Etowah County residents are about 77% White, a similar share. A diversity index of 35% means there is a 35% chance two randomly chosen students at Sardis High School are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.9:1. The school has 32.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The ratio is within a point of the 17.2:1 average for high schools in Alabama. Federal data show 49% of students (266) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Etowah County, the average eligibility rate is 58%.
Sardis High School earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 30% of Alabama public high schools.
Sardis High School is 23.0 points below expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the bottom 10% in Alabama.
In Etowah County, home to about 103,105 people, the median household earns about $54,563 a year, roughly 18% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 12%. Sardis High School shares Etowah County with 41 other public schools.
A public school about 0.2 miles away, Sardis Middle School, is the closest to Sardis High School. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Its average proficiency rate of 25.6% is below the 45.4% average for nearby schools.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Town: Distant: in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 538 in 2020-21 and 546 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (16.9:1) than in 2020-21 (17.9:1).
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Etowah County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
103,105
Census ACS
Median income
$54,563
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
42
15,139 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Etowah County
- Southside High SchoolHigh · 825 students
- John S Jones Elementary SchoolElementary · 745 students
- Rainbow Middle SchoolMiddle · 634 students
- Hokes Bluff Elementary SchoolElementary · 610 students
- Southside Elementary SchoolElementary · 585 students
- Whitesboro Elementary SchoolElementary · 423 students
Nearby schools
- Sardis Middle School0.2 mi · 381
- Whitesboro Elementary School3.2 mi · 423
- Boaz Intermediate School3.2 mi · 361
- Boaz Middle School3.4 mi · 583
- Boaz High School3.4 mi · 721
- Corley Elementary School3.6 mi · 429
Frequently asked questions
About Sardis High SchoolHow large is Sardis High School?
Sardis High School enrolls approximately 546 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Sardis High School serve?
Sardis High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many teachers does Sardis High School have?
Sardis High School employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.9:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sardis High School?
At Sardis High School, the student body is approximately 79% White, 14% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Sardis High School?
Sardis High School is overseen by Etowah County in Etowah County.
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