High · Alabama
Bessemer City High School
Free meals for allBessemer City High School, a public high school in Bessemer, Alabama: grades 9–12, 760 students, 21.7 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Bessemer City.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 760
- Teachers (FTE)
- 35.0
- Students per teacher
- 21.7
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 97% of high schools in Alabama
Median 17.2 · 318 schools compared
More students per teacher than 88% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 71% of high schools in Alabama
Median 526 · 323 schools compared
Larger than 67% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- Bessemer City
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Bessemer City.
Location
- Address
- 4950 Premiere Parkway, Bessemer, AL 35022
- Phone
- (205)432-3700
- City or town
- Bessemer
- County
- Jefferson County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Bessemer Center For TechnologyCareer and technical | 9–12 | — | — |
McAdory High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,259 | 18.1 |
Alabama Aerospace and Aviation High SchoolCharterFree meals for all | 9–12 | 161 | 20.1 |
New Horizon Alternative SchoolAlternativeFree meals for all | 7–12 | — | — |
Hueytown High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,200 | 16.7 |
Midfield High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 327 | 17.7 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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