Talladega High School

Talladega High School is one of the middle-of-the-pack four-year high schools in Talladega, Alabama, run under Talladega City, with 634 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12.

Talladega High School is one of 5 schools operated by Talladega City, a district that caters to 1,676 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Talladega High School logs that Black students make up the majority at 75%; the rest comes out to 17% White, 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Talladega County as a whole is about 30% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.2:1, putting Talladega High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Talladega County's rate of about 62%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Talladega High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 17.0%.

In the surrounding community, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Talladega County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,973 students), Talladega High School is one campus in the mix.

Evelyn D Houston Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Talladega High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.5%.

Talladega High School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Talladega High School's enrollment has increased 24% since 2018, when it stood at 511 (now 634). Over the same period, the White share declined from 24% to 17%. Class-load math has grew: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Talladega High School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.