Southeastern School

Southeastern School is one of the moderately sized all-grades campuss in Remlap, Alabama, overseen by Blount County, with 822 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 12. That puts it 22% above the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 673 students.

Southeastern School is one of 14 schools operated by Blount County, a district that works with 7,600 students overall.

On demographics, Southeastern School records that 73% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 23% Hispanic, 2% Black. By comparison, Blount County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Southeastern School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.1%; this one delivers 39.7%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Blount County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $64,190 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Blount County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,980 students), Southeastern School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Locust Fork Elementary, around 5.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Southeastern School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 34.8%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Southeastern School has rose 7%, going from 765 students in 2018 to 822 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 in 2025.

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