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Evergreen, AL schools

Evergreen’s public schools score well below Alabama’s averages: 30% of students are proficient in reading against 45.4% statewide, and 87% of high schoolers graduate on time against 90.6%. Kids attend Evergreen Elementary School through grade 5, then Thurgood Marshall Middle School and Hillcrest High School.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

C-School Grade #154Best schools in AL (of 180)#161Highest graduation rate in AL (of 193)

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Evergreen’s School Grade: C-

The public schools Evergreen’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 81% of Alabama’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.

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Alabama school districts we grade (143)Better than 19%

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Alabama towns with similar household incomes (204)Better than 16%

High confidence. Built on 724 tested students and a graduating class of 167; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.

How the School Grade works

Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Alabama’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Alabama only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Alabama with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.