Northport, AL schools
Northport’s public schools score close to Alabama’s averages: 45% of students are proficient in reading against 45.4% statewide, and 85% of high schoolers graduate on time against 90.6%. Kids attend one of 5 elementary schools through grade 4, then one of 5 elementary schools, Echols Middle School and Tuscaloosa County High School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Northport’s School Grade: C
The public schools Northport’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 66% of Alabama’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
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.
Where Northport kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Close to the state in reading
85% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #175 of 193 AL towns →
The district serving Northport
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Northport
There’s no college in Northport, but 3 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, 4 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Northport. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.
All 11 schools in Northport
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.