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Enrollment
684
Combined
DISTRICT 617 · STATE 673
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAMAR COUNTY·NCES 010195000756
Sulligent School
500 Elm St, Sulligent, AL 35586 · (205) 698-9254 · Lamar County
GRADES PK–12COMBINED43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL684 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
370 students
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 58%
Community
4
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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
64.5%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
38.6%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
48.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.7%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Alabama's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
684
-125 (-15%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 17.8:1
% White
82%
was 85%
% Hispanic
1%
was 1%
% Black
13%
was 13%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About Sulligent School
Sulligent School is one of the moderately sized all-grades campuss in Sulligent, Alabama, one of the schools within Lamar County, with 684 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 12.
Within Lamar County, which oversees 4 schools and 2,129 students, Sulligent School is one campus in the system.
Demographically, Sulligent School shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 13% Black, 4% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Sulligent School has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Sulligent School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 54% 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, Sulligent School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.7%; this one delivers 48.0%.
In the area at large, census data for Lamar County shows median household income runs about $50,000, roughly 12% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Lamar County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,129 students), of which Sulligent School is one.
Vernon Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 10.1 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Sulligent School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.9%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 15%: 809 students in 2018 compared to 684 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.
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Lamar County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
13,693
Census ACS
Median income
$50,000
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
12%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
5
2,129 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lamar County
- South Lamar SchoolCombined · 624 students
- Lamar County HighIntermediateCombined · 544 students
- Vernon Elementary SchoolElementary · 277 students
- Lamar County School Of TechnologyHigh
Nearby schools
- Vernon Elementary School10.1 mi · 277
- Lamar County HighIntermediate10.4 mi · 544
- Guin Elementary School13.4 mi · 308
- Marion County High School13.4 mi · 223
- Hatley School17.2 mi · 905
- Hamilton Elementary School17.8 mi · 638
Frequently asked questions
About Sulligent SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Sulligent School?
Sulligent School enrolls approximately 684 students in grades PK-12.
What age range does Sulligent School serve?
Sulligent School serves students from grade PK through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Sulligent School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Sulligent School is approximately 15.8:1 (43 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sulligent School?
At Sulligent School, the student body is approximately 82% White, 1% Hispanic, 13% Black, 4% Two or more.
What district is Sulligent School in?
Sulligent School is part of Lamar County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.