Jefferson County
Adamsville, AL · 56 schools · 35,951 students
Largest Schools
Schools ranked by enrollment. Proficiency data from EDFacts where available.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Jefferson County has 56 schools serving 35,951 students. The average proficiency rate across the district is 45%. The average graduation rate is 76%.
Jefferson County operates 56 public schools, including ClayChalkville High School, Hueytown High School, Shades Valley High School, McAdory High School, Gardendale High School and others. The full school list is shown above with enrollment and grade-level details.
The average graduation rate across high schools in Jefferson County is approximately 76% (EDFacts district-level data, most recent reporting year). Individual school graduation rates may vary; this is a district-wide adjusted-cohort graduation rate.
The largest school in Jefferson County is ClayChalkville High School with 1,361 students.
Jefferson County serves 35,951 students across 56 schools in AL, per the latest NCES Common Core of Data enrollment.
Jefferson County's average proficiency rate of 45% (math and reading combined, EDFacts) is around average for US public school districts. "Good" depends on what you value — proficiency is one signal; enrollment trends, class size, graduation rates, and district resources also matter. Check individual school pages for granular data.
Student-teacher ratios are reported at the school level by NCES, not aggregated at the district level in our dataset. Open any individual school page in Jefferson County to see its specific student-teacher ratio. The US national average is approximately 16:1 for public schools.
All data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (enrollment, school count, demographics) and EDFacts assessment results (proficiency rates, graduation rates). Proficiency and graduation rates are reported at the district level. Both are federal sources used by the US Department of Education.
School performance data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.