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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / High

Marion County Alternative School

Hamilton, Alabama

NCES ID
010231000985
School type
Alternative
Title I
Not designated

Marion County Alternative School is a public high school in Hamilton, Alabama, run by Marion County. It enrols 15 students — the 94888th largest of 1,528 public schools in Alabama.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

15students

94888th nationally, tied with 111

Free or reduced-price lunch

73.3%percent

27900th nationally, tied with 97

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Marion County

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Hamilton Elementary School634 students
  2. 2Hamilton High School466 students
  3. 3Hamilton Middle School452 students
  4. 4Guin Elementary School292 students
  5. 5Hackleburg Elementary School281 students
  6. 6Brilliant School255 students
  7. 7Phillips Elementary School254 students
  8. 8Marion County High School250 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Alabama median across 1,528 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−97.1%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+11.4%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.