Tallassee High School

Tallassee High School is one of the tight-knit secondary schools in Tallassee, Alabama, part of Tallassee City, with 474 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 30% below the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 682 students.

Tallassee City comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,507 students; Tallassee High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Tallassee High School records that 60% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 28% Black, 9% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 73%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.2:1, putting Tallassee High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Tallassee High School is in the bottom 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 46.0%; Tallassee High School posts 26.9%, -19.1 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Elmore County put median household income runs about $78,243, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Tallassee High School is one of 26 public schools in Elmore County (combined enrollment of about 13,867 students).

The closest other public school is Southside Middle School, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Tallassee High School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 14%: 551 students in 2018 compared to 474 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 67% to 60% across the same window.

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