White Plains High School

As a small secondary school in Anniston, Alabama, White Plains High School serves 396 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Calhoun County. Compared to the state average of about 682 students per school, that is 42% smaller than typical.

Calhoun County comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 7,997 students; White Plains High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, White Plains High School reports that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 5% Black. By comparison, Calhoun County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, White Plains High School records 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.2:1 average. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Calhoun County's rate of about 58%.

After controlling for student poverty, White Plains High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 54.6%; this one comes in at 36.9%, -17.7 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Calhoun County shows median household earnings sit near $55,029, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Calhoun County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,686 students), of which White Plains High School is one.

The closest other public school is White Plains Elementary School, roughly 1.8 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, White Plains High School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 36.4%.

White Plains High School operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. White Plains High School's enrollment has contracted 9% since 2018, when it stood at 437 (now 396). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 6% to 15%.

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