Mobile 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 ...
Nine Alabama Districts Haven't Grown in Over a Decade
Perry County enrolled 731 students in 2025-26. Eleven years ago, it enrolled 1,730. Not once in the intervening years did enrollment rise, not by a single student, not for a single year.
Mobile County Has Lost One in Five Students
Mobile County enrolled 46,700 students in 2025-26. That is 11,829 fewer than the 58,529 it enrolled in 2015-16, a loss of 20.2% in a decade. No other district in Alabama has shed more students in raw ...
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 ...
White Students Drop Below 50% in Alabama for First Time
In the late 1990s, nearly two out of three students in Alabama public schools were white. By 2016, that share had fallen to 55.6%. In 2024-25, it reached 50.0%, dropping below the majority threshold f...
714,363: Alabama Hits Its Lowest Enrollment in Over a Decade
State Superintendent Eric Mackey put it plainly in October: "They're just gone." He was talking about roughly 2,100 students who were enrolled in Alabama public schools last year and simply did not re...