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Public school / High

Sipsey Valley High School

Buhl, Alabama

NCES ID
010339002153
District
Tuscaloosa County
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Sipsey Valley High School is a public high school in Buhl, Alabama, run by Tuscaloosa County. It enrols 511 students — the 35964th 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

511students

35964th nationally, tied with 116

Teachers

25.0FTE

53124th nationally, tied with 2,399

Students per teacher

20.4students

79931st nationally, tied with 323

Free or reduced-price lunch

57.9%percent

42567th nationally, tied with 102

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.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

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 Tuscaloosa 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. 1Tuscaloosa County High School1,545 students
  2. 2Hillcrest High School1,356 students
  3. 3Brookwood High School1,078 students
  4. 4Echols Middle School878 students
  5. 5Brookwood Middle School796 students
  6. 6Lake View Elementary School769 students
  7. 7Walker Elementary School760 students
  8. 8Northport Elementary School607 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment0.0%
  • Teachers−7.4%
  • Students per teacher+15.3%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−12.0%
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Where this sits

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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.