A L Brown High

A L Brown High is one of the large secondary schools in Kannapolis, North Carolina, part of Kannapolis City Schools, with 1,753 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 761 students each, so A L Brown High sits 130% bigger than that benchmark.

Kannapolis City Schools comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,377 students; A L Brown High is among them.

Demographically, A L Brown High records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 28% Black, 24% White, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 13% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 94 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Cabarrus County's rate of about 56%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), A L Brown High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.4%; this one comes in at 23.0%, -25.4 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Cabarrus County indicate median household income runs about $89,005, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Cabarrus County runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 43,278 students), of which A L Brown High is one.

GW Carver Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, A L Brown High comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.7%.

A L Brown High operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 7%: 1,637 students in 2018 compared to 1,753 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 29% to 40% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.