Summary:
Monroe County High School is the sole public high school in Monroe County, Alabama, serving grades 9 through 12 with an enrollment of 302 students in the town of Monroeville. This single-school district faces significant academic challenges, with performance consistently trailing both district and state averages across all subjects, while serving a student body where over 80% qualify for free or reduced lunch.
For parents, the most pressing concern is the school’s dramatic academic decline in the 2025-26 school year. Science proficiency plummeted from 22.22% to 8.06%, and English proficiency fell from 24.64% to 11.48% in just one year. Mathematics remains critically low at 8.06% proficiency, though this represents an improvement from the previous year’s 2.78%. The school’s state ranking has fallen from the 42nd percentile in 2023-24 to the 9th percentile in 2025-26, placing it among the lowest-performing high schools in Alabama. Monroe County High School also underperforms its own Monroe County district in every subject, with gaps of 11 to 15 percentage points in 2025-26.
Despite these academic struggles, the school maintains an 86.5% graduation rate, only 5 points below the state average, suggesting students are being moved through the system despite low test scores. Chronic absenteeism sits at 14.8%, above the state average of 12.0%. With a student-teacher ratio of 16.3:1 and per-student spending of $11,615, the school faces the dual challenge of high poverty and declining performance. Parents should be aware that the school’s ranking has dropped from 220th to 344th out of roughly 380 schools in just two years, indicating urgent need for intervention in literacy and STEM instruction, as well as strategies to address absenteeism and support a predominantly economically disadvantaged student population.
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