Montgomery 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...
Montgomery's 17-Point Crash Was the Biggest in the State. Two Years Later, It's Still Not Back.
In 2022, Montgomery County graduated 84.5 percent of its seniors. One year later, the number was 67.4 percent.
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.
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 ...
Phillip Brooks Takes the Helm at a School That Rewrote Its Own Name
Phillip Brooks is the new principal of Johnson Abernathy Graetz High School in Montgomery, the second-largest school in Montgomery Public Schools and one that carries a name chosen to honor the civil ...
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...