Sparkman High School

As a heavily attended 9-12 campus in Harvest, Alabama, Sparkman High School hosts 1,770 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Madison County. Compared to the state average of about 682 students per school, that is 160% above typical.

Within Madison County, which oversees 28 schools and 20,691 students, Sparkman High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Sparkman High School shows that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 36% Black, 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Native American. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 88 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.2:1 average. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sparkman High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.3%, the actual is 43.9%, a residual of -13.4 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Madison County shows median household income runs about $86,499, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Madison County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), of which Sparkman High School is one.

Sparkman Ninth Grade School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sparkman High School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 35.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sparkman High School has stayed largely flat, going from 1,777 students in 2018 to 1,770 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 56% to 44%.

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