Wilcox Central High School

Located at 1310 T L Threadgill Rd, in Camden, Alabama, Wilcox Central High School is a low-enrollment four-year high school that hosts 340 students (grades 9 through 12), run under Wilcox County. Enrollment runs roughly 50% smaller than the state mean of about 682.

Wilcox Central High School is one of 5 schools operated by Wilcox County, a district that caters to 1,147 students overall.

Demographically, Wilcox Central High School logs that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Wilcox Central High School has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.2:1, putting Wilcox Central High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wilcox Central High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 19.0%; this one delivers 6.9%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Wilcox County put median household income runs about $40,640, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 24%. Wilcox Central High School is one of 6 public schools in Wilcox County (combined enrollment of about 1,147 students).

Camden School Of Arts Technology is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Wilcox Central High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 39%: 555 students in 2018 compared to 340 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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