Wenonah High School

Wenonah High School is a secondary school of moderately sized scale in Birmingham, Alabama, overseen by Birmingham City, caters to 670 students in grades 9 through 12.

Birmingham City comprises 43 schools with combined enrollment of 20,954 students; Wenonah High School is among them.

Demographically, Wenonah High School lists that 88% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 10% Hispanic. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. The state averages about 17.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Jefferson County's rate of about 52%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wenonah High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 25.0%; this one comes in at 6.7%, -18.3 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $66,388 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Jefferson County's 181 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students), Wenonah High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Jones Valley Middle School, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wenonah High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wenonah High School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 41.4%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. Wenonah High School's enrollment has edged down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 736 (now 670). Black enrollment moved from 96% to 88% across the same window.

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