High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12
Bessemer City High School, Bessemer, AL
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 760
- Teachers (FTE)
- 35.0
- Students per teacher
- 21.7
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is 2.3 higher than the district figure of 19.4. The Alabama average across schools is 17.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 4950 Premiere Parkway, Bessemer, AL 35022
- Phone
- (205)432-3700
- District
- Bessemer City School District
- County
- Jefferson County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 010033000087
School meals
- Free lunch
- 605
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 60579.6% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 605Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other high schools in Bessemer City School District
High schools elsewhere in Bessemer
- Oak Grove High School Jefferson County Public Schools
- Alabama Aerospace and Aviation High School Alabama Aerospace and Aviation
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.