Sylacauga High School

Sylacauga High School, a reasonably sized secondary school in Sylacauga, Alabama, run under Sylacauga City, enrolls 627 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

Sylacauga City comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,976 students; Sylacauga High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Sylacauga High School records that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 41% Black, 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Talladega County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Sylacauga High School records 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. The state averages around 17.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 50% of students at Sylacauga High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Talladega County's rate of about 62%.

After controlling for student poverty, Sylacauga High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.7%, the actual is 37.4%, a residual of -10.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Talladega County indicate median household earnings sit near $57,776, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Talladega County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,973 students), Sylacauga High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BB Comer Memorial High School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sylacauga High School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.5%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Sylacauga High School's enrollment has contracted 8% since 2018, when it stood at 681 (now 627). The White share of enrollment declined from 61% to 50% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Sylacauga High School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.