Waterloo High School

Waterloo High School is a low-enrollment multi-level school in Waterloo, Alabama, run under Lauderdale County. The school instructs 337 students in grades pre-K through 12. That puts it 50% below the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 673 students.

Waterloo High School is one of 14 schools operated by Lauderdale County, a district that caters to 7,952 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Waterloo High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). The wider county runs roughly 83% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Waterloo High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.2%, the actual is 44.3%, a residual of -2.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, Lauderdale County reports that median household earnings sit near $62,649, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lauderdale County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,526 students), of which Waterloo High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Iuka Elementary School, around 10.5 miles off. On composite proficiency, Waterloo High School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 43.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Waterloo High School's enrollment has fell 3% since 2018, when it stood at 349 (now 337). Class-load math has loosened: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 in 2025.

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