Jefferson County
One in Three Alabama Districts at All-Time Enrollment Lows
The four largest school districts in Alabama have never enrolled fewer students than they do right now. Mobile County, Jefferson County, Montgomery County, and Birmingham City all hit record lows in 2...
One in 14 Alabama Students Is Now an English Learner
In Tarrant City, a district of 1,221 students wedged between Birmingham and its northern suburbs, more than one in three students is classified as an English learner. A decade ago, it was one in 25. T...
Alabama Is 32,000 Students Below Its Pre-COVID Trajectory
Alabama's public schools enrolled 740,118 students in 2019-20. That was roughly where they had been for half a decade: fluctuating within a narrow band, never gaining or losing more than a percentage ...
28 Alabama Districts Have Recovered to Pre-COVID Enrollment. Four in Five Have Not
Five years after the pandemic emptied classrooms across Alabama, the students have not come back. Of 138 districts with comparable enrollment data from before COVID to today, just 28 have returned to ...