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Bessemer, Alabama - 1 schools
79
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
-
Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Alabama Aerospace and Aviation operates 1 public schools serving 79 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Alabama. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Jefferson County.
The funding mix is 51.4% local, 15.8% state, and 32.8% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
. Demographically, the student body averages 78.3% African American, 8.1% White, 7.5% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Alabama Aerospace and Aviation High School accounts for 100.0% of all Alabama Aerospace and Aviation student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Alabama Aerospace and Aviation a distant remainder — means Alabama Aerospace and Aviation-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Alabama Aerospace and Aviation has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 50.6% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Comparisons are relative to Alabama Aerospace and Aviation's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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