Southern Choctaw High School

Southern Choctaw High School is a high school of tiny scale in Gilbertown, Alabama, operated by Choctaw County, works with 211 students in grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 69% smaller than the state mean of about 682.

Choctaw County comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,025 students; Southern Choctaw High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Southern Choctaw High School logs that 55% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder is composed of 42% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 38%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Southern Choctaw High School has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.2:1 average. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Southern Choctaw High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.2%; this one delivers 14.9%.

In the broader community, Choctaw County reports that median household earnings sit near $47,813, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Southern Choctaw High School is one of 4 public schools in Choctaw County (combined enrollment of about 1,025 students).

Southern Choctaw Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Southern Choctaw High School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.3%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 37%: 333 students in 2018 compared to 211 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 49% to 42% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 in 2025.

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