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Susan Moore High School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Susan Moore High School
Located at 4040 Susan Moore Rd, in Blountsville, Alabama, Susan Moore High School is a low-enrollment four-year high school that works with 440 students (grades 7 through 12), overseen by Blount County. Enrollment runs roughly 35% leaner than the state mean of about 682.
Susan Moore High School is one of 14 schools operated by Blount County, a district that educates 7,600 students overall.
On demographics, Susan Moore High School logs that 55% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 43% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, Susan Moore High School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.8:1. The state averages about 17.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 64% of students at Susan Moore High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Blount County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Susan Moore High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.4%; this one delivers 20.3%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Blount County indicate the typical household earns roughly $64,190 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Susan Moore High School is one of 20 public schools in Blount County (combined enrollment of about 8,980 students).
The closest other public school is Susan Moore Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Susan Moore High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.0%.
Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Susan Moore High School has contracted 21%, going from 556 students in 2018 to 440 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 30% to 43% over that span.
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