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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