Wicksburg High School

Wicksburg High School is one of the compact senior highs in Newton, Alabama, run under Houston County, with 461 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 682 students each, so Wicksburg High School sits 32% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 14 schools in Houston County (6,907 students total), Wicksburg High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Wicksburg High School logs that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 7% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 65%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 33% of students at Wicksburg High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Houston County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Wicksburg High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.1%; this one delivers 64.1%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Houston County indicate the typical household earns roughly $58,626 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Houston County's 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,127 students), Wicksburg High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Wicksburg Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wicksburg High School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 37.4%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 54%: 994 students in 2018 compared to 461 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.

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