Public Schools in Alabama
1,369 schools · 149 districts · 750,469 students
Largest Schools in Alabama
School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.
Alabama Connections Academy
Athens
Alabama Virtual Academy at Eufaula City Schools
Eufaula
Hoover High School
Hoover
Baker High School
Mobile
Thompson High School
Alabaster
James Clemens High School
Madison
Auburn High School
Auburn
Enterprise High School
Enterprise
Virgil Grissom High School
Huntsville
Mary G Montgomery High School
Semmes
Frequently Asked Questions
Alabama has 1,369 public schools across 149 districts, serving 750,469 students.
The largest school in Alabama is Alabama Connections Academy with 7,063 students. Alabama has 1,369 public schools overall.
The average proficiency rate is 45%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.
School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.