Regular local school district · Houston County
Dothan City School District, AL: schools, enrollment and spending
Dothan City School District runs 18 public schools with 8,220 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 17.9 students per teacher is about the same as the Alabama figure of 17.2.Listed in NCES data as "Dothan City".
At a glance
- Schools
- 18
- Students
- 8,220
- Teachers (FTE)
- 460
- Students per teacher
- 17.9
- AL: 17.2 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 1665 Honeysuckle Road, Dothan, AL 36301
- Phone
- (334)793-1397
- County
- Houston County
- Locale
- City: Small
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 0101230
- State district ID
- AL-130
- Total staff (FTE)
- 889
- School counselors (FTE)
- 18.0About 457 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 60.0
Students per teacher compared
This district17.9
Alabama17.2
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (8,031), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $107.6 million
- Federal revenue
- $22.9 million
- State revenue
- $57.0 million
- Local revenue
- $27.7 million
- Total spending
- $107.4 million
- Spending per pupil
- $13,370
- Salaries
- $52.1 million48.6% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $14.9 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 21.3%
- State: 53.0%
- Local: 25.7%
Alabama overall
- Federal: 15.3%
- State: 53.6%
- Local: 31.1%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$13,370
Alabama$12,393
United States$16,826
Schools in Dothan City School District
By level: 4 high, 2 middle, 10 elementary, 1 secondary, 1 prekindergarten. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Beverlye Intermediate SchoolCEP school | Elementary | 3 to 5 | 338 | 21.1 |
| Carver 9th Grade AcademyCEP school | Secondary | 9 | 583 | 17.1 |
| Carver School of Mathematics Science and TechnologyCEP school | Elementary | 3 to 6 | 429 | 20.4 |
| Dothan 6th Grade CenterCEP school | Middle | 6 | 449 | 19.5 |
| Dothan City Early Education CenterCEP school | Prekindergarten | PK | 183 | 16.6 |
| Dothan City Virtual School | High | 7 to 12 | 226 | 14.1 |
| Dothan High SchoolCEP school | High | 10 to 12 | 1,588 | 18.9 |
| Dothan Preparatory AcademyCEP school | Middle | 7 to 8 | 1,034 | 18.5 |
| Dothan Technology Center | High | 10 to 12 | ||
| Faine Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 326 | 14.8 |
| Girard Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 380 | 16.5 |
| Heard Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 389 | 18.5 |
| Hidden Lake Primary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 2 | 476 | 17.0 |
| Highlands Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 501 | 15.2 |
| Kelly Springs Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 516 | 17.2 |
| Morris Slingluff Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 381 | 18.1 |
| PASS AcademyCEP school | High | 7 to 12 | ||
| Selma Street Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 421 | 20.0 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Houston County
- Houston County Public Schools 6,907 students
- Barnabas School of Leadership
More in Alabama
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.