W S Neal High School

Set in East Brewton, Alabama, W S Neal High School is a small senior high, overseen by Escambia County. It hosts 370 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 682 students each, so W S Neal High School sits 46% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 11 schools in Escambia County (4,072 students total), W S Neal High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, W S Neal High School lists that White students make up the majority at 59%; the rest reads as 32% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, W S Neal High School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.0:1. The state averages around 17.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), W S Neal High School is in the bottom 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.5%; W S Neal High School posts 12.8%, -20.7 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Escambia County indicate the typical household earns roughly $48,225 per year, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, Escambia County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,240 students), of which W S Neal High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: W S Neal Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, W S Neal High School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.4%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at W S Neal High School has edged down 11%, going from 414 students in 2018 to 370 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 69% to 59% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 in 2025.

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