Public school / High
Sparkman High School
Harvest, Alabama
- NCES ID
- 010222000848
- District
- Madison County
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Sparkman High School is a public high school in Harvest, Alabama, run by Madison County. It enrols 1,738 students — the 2708th largest of 1,528 public schools in Alabama.
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
1,738
Teachers
91.0
Students per teacher
19.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
37.2%
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.
Within Madison 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.
- 1Sparkman High School1,738 students
- 2Hazel Green High School1,348 students
- 3Buckhorn High School1,287 students
- 4Madison Cross Roads Elementary School1,035 students
- 5Monrovia Middle School1,003 students
- 6Sparkman Middle School859 students
- 7Moores Mill Intermediate School840 students
- 8Riverton Intermediate School813 students
- Enrollment+240.1%
- Teachers+237.0%
- Students per teacher+7.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−43.5%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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