Public school / High
Vestavia Hills High School
Vestavia, Alabama
- NCES ID
- 010343001304
- District
- Vestavia Hills City
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Vestavia Hills High School is a public high school in Vestavia, Alabama, run by Vestavia Hills City. It enrols 1,578 students — the 3384th 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
1,578
Teachers
114.0
Students per teacher
13.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
10.4%
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 Vestavia Hills City
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.
- 1Vestavia Hills High School1,578 students
- 2Pizitz Middle School1,158 students
- 3East Elementary759 students
- 4West Elementary745 students
- 5Vestavia Hills Elementary Dolly Ridge679 students
- 6Vestavia Hills High School Freshman Campus587 students
- 7Liberty Park Elementary586 students
- 8Liberty Park Middle School503 students
- Enrollment+208.8%
- Teachers+322.2%
- Students per teacher−22.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−84.2%
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