Zion Chapel High School

Zion Chapel High School is a multi-level school of medium-sized scale in Jack, Alabama, overseen by Coffee County, enrolling 887 students in grades pre-K through 12. That puts it 32% larger than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 673 students.

Zion Chapel High School is one of 5 schools operated by Coffee County, a district that teaches 2,953 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Zion Chapel High School records that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

Looking at school resources, Zion Chapel High School reports 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 53% of students at Zion Chapel High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Zion Chapel High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.5%, the actual is 50.5%, a residual of +5.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for Coffee County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,353 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Coffee County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,168 students), of which Zion Chapel High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Elba High School, around 11.1 miles off. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Zion Chapel High School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 34.6%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 5%: 844 students in 2018 compared to 887 in 2025.

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