Theodore High School

Theodore High School is a substantial secondary school in Theodore, Alabama, part of Mobile County. The school instructs 1,218 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 682 students each, so Theodore High School sits 79% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 85 schools in Mobile County (49,946 students total), Theodore High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Theodore High School lists that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 33% Black, 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.2:1, putting Theodore High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 67% of students at Theodore High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Theodore High School is in the bottom 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.1%; Theodore High School posts 12.7%, -22.4 points below that line.

In the area at large, census data for Mobile County shows the typical household earns roughly $58,880 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Mobile County runs 107 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,070 students), of which Theodore High School is one.

Nan Gray Davis Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Theodore High School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 34.5%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Theodore High School's enrollment has contracted 21% since 2018, when it stood at 1,539 (now 1,218). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 61% to 48% over that span.

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