West Point High School

West Point High School is a middle-of-the-pack 9-12 campus in Cullman, Alabama, overseen by Cullman County. The school educates 591 students in grades 9 through 12.

Within Cullman County, which oversees 25 schools and 9,901 students, West Point High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, West Point High School logs that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.2:1, putting West Point High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 41% of students at West Point High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, West Point High School is in the bottom 10% of Alabama public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 53.8%; West Point High School posts 26.9%, -26.9 points below that line.

Across the wider county, Cullman County reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,656 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cullman County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,144 students), West Point High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is West Point Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), West Point High School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 36.2%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 580 students in 2018 compared to 591 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 90% to 83%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.

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