Politics Alabama
State School Report Cards
This page was last updated: 31 May, 2012
The Alabama Department of Education each year publishes "Report Card" on the various schools and school systems around the State, including a summary "Report Card" for the entire state. While the individual school and school districts information is beyond the scope of this site, detailed information can be found on the Alabama Department of Education's website.
For information on Alabama schools as a whole, the links below can be used to access the full Report Cards for the past eight years.
Alabama Schools Report Card, 2006-2007, click here.
Alabama Schools Report Card, 2005-2006, click here.
Alabama Schools Report Card, 2004-2005, click here.
Alabama Schools Report Card, 2003-2004, click here.
Alabama Schools Report Card, 2002-2003, click here.
Alabama Schools Report Card, 2001-2002, click here.
Alabama Schools Report Card, 2000-2001, click here.
Alabama Schools Report Card, 1999-2000, click here.
The charts below compares school funding and performance over the previous years since at least the 1999-2000 school year. The data in the charts below was gathered entirely from the Alabama Department of Education's yearly Report Cards (the sole exception being the calculated per-pupil spending figure in the second table) and is presented for comparison purposes only. The links above are provided for easy verification of the data presented below.
Note: Beginning with the 2003-2004 school year, information on remedial rates in college were not supplied on the Report Card as they had been in previous years. ACT scores were dropped beginning with the 2004-2005 school year, and SAT scored were dropped beginning with the 2006-2007 school year.
Enrollment & Financing: This chart shows how many students attended school during each year, the projected 4-year dropout rate, the total state funding for the school system, and the total state spending for the school system.
Report Card
School Year Enrollment Dropout Total Revenue Total Spending
2006-2007 739,552 10.08% $6,976,129,875 $6,860,209.678
2005-2006 742,977 11.18% $6,288,295,492 $6,080,973,126
2004-2005 733,971 13.05% $5,598,819,387 $5,592,721,237
2003-2004 732,457 13.30% $5,731,464,493 $5,497,525,529
2002-2003 731,483 16.25% $5,366,087,471 $5,228,631,578
2001-2002 730,169 16.48% $5,194,676,942 $5,182,479,004
2000-2001 731,307 15.45% $4,849,301,440 $5,114,615,050
1999-2000 732,042 14.00% $4,895,547,420 $4,703,111,512
Per-Pupil Spending: The ALDOE supplies a per-pupil figure in each report card, but in calculating it they use "allowable expenditures" instead of total expenditures, which means they exclude "capital outlay and interest on the school debt." The "Calculated" figure in this table was arrived at by using total expenditures divided by enrollment, both figures supplied in the previous chart. The inflation adjusted figures are given in 2007 dollars, and were calculated using a GDP deflator. You can perform these calculations yourself here.
Official Inflation Calculated Inflation
Report Card Spending Adjusted Spending Adjusted
School Year per Student (2007 $) per Student (2007 $)
2006-2007 $7,608.95 $7,608.95 $9,276.17 $9,276.17
2005-2006 $6,973.06 $7,384.21 $8,184.60 $8,667.18
2004-2005 $6,481.93 $7,086.29 $7,619.81 $8,330.26
2003-2004 $6,313.60 $7,100.30 $7,505.59 $8,440.82
2002-2003 $6,040.40 $6,937.54 $7,147.98 $8,209.62
2001-2002 $5,908.15 $6,904.32 $7,097.64 $8,294.37
2000-2001 $5,657.58 $6,770.31 $6,993.80 $8,369.34
1999-2000 $5,302.94 $6,484.16 $6,424.64 $7,855.72
Safety & Security: This table shows the number of discipline incidents for each school year, broken down into various types.
Report Card Bomb Drug Weapon Total #
School Year Assaults Threats Related Related Incidents
2006-2007 917 58 1,611 1,602 4,188
2005-2006 1,362 69 1,834 1,698 4,963
2004-2005 1,459 33 1,746 1,625 4,863
2003-2004 1,576 39 1,616 1,407 4,638
2002-2003 3,153 39 1,439 1,360 5,991
2001-2002 2,712 50 1,186 1,300 5,248
2000-2001 3,040 58 1,308 1,530 5,936
1999-2000 2,002 67 188 1,200 3,457
College Remediation: This table shows the percentage of college freshman from Alabama public schools who were enrolled in remedial courses at Alabama's public colleges and universities. The N/A under some columns means the data was not available in the Report card for the specified year. It appears as if the remediation rate was eliminated from the annual report card starting in the 2003-2004 school year.
Needed Needed Needed Needed
Report Card Remedial Remedial Remedial Remedial
School Year English Math Both Total
2006-2007 Information Not Reported
2005-2006 Information Not Reported
2004-2005 Information Not Reported
2003-2004 Information Not Reported
2002-2003 7.0% 14.3% 13.4% 34.6%
2001-2002 7.1% 13.8% 11.3% 32.2%
2000-2001 7.0% 12.5% 10.8% 30.3%
1999-2000 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Graduation Exam: This table shows the percentage of graduating seniors who passed each portion of the graduation exam. The N/A under some columns means the data was not available in the Report card for the specified year. The graduation exam was extensively changed in 2003, so after that date some information will be unavailable. Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, results were expressed in whole numbers.
Report Card
School Year Reading Language Mathematics Science Passed All
2006-2007 95.0% N/A 96.0% N/A N/A
2005-2006 95.3% N/A 95.7% N/A N/A
2004-2005 95.5% N/A 94.7% N/A N/A
2003-2004 96.6% N/A 95.8% N/A N/A
2002-2003 97.3% 96.5% 96.6% 96.7% 92.5%
2001-2002 96.7% 96.3% 94.7% 94.7% 90.3%
2000-2001 97.0% 93.0% N/A N/A N/A
1999-2000 83.0% 76.0% N/A N/A N/A
Writing Assessment: Each year, 5th and 7th graders are given tests to measure their writing ability. However, beginning in the 2001-2002 school year the reporting format changed dramatically. The columns marked N/A indicate the columns not applicable for each year. The first two columns use the old system, merely a numerical score with a letter grade. The last three columns use the new system, evaluating what percentage of test takers met or exceeded grade-level standards. For example, in the 2002-2003 school year, 39.9% of 5th graders met or exceeded standards, and the remaining 60.1% of 5th graders either partially met or did not meet grade-level standards.
Met Exceeded Met/Exceeded
Report Card Standards Standards Standards
School Year Grade 5 Grade 7 Gr 5/Gr 7 Gr 5/Gr 7 Gr 5/Gr 7
2006-2007 N/A N/A 50.1%/54.9% 10.9%/14.1% 61.0%/69.0%
2005-2006 N/A N/A 53.9%/50.8% 10.1%/9.2% 64.0%/60.0%
2004-2005 N/A N/A 48.1%/51.5% 10.6%/11.5% 58.7%/63.0%
2003-2004 N/A N/A 47.9%/47.5% 9.5%/8.2% 57.4%/55.7%
2002-2003 N/A N/A 37.6%/35.9% 3.2%/2.9% 39.9%/38.8%
2001-2002 N/A N/A 29.3%/36.0% 1.7%/2.3% 31.0%/38.3%
2000-2001 4.54(C+) 4.94(B-) N/A N/A N/A
1999-2000 5.02 (B) 5.04 (B) N/A N/A N/A
Beginning with the 2003-2004 school year, they began testing and reporting for 10th graders as well.
Met Exceeded Met/Exceeded
Report Card Standards Standards Standards
School Year Grade 10 Grade 10 Grade 10
2006-2007 50.3% 23.6% 73.9%
2005-2006 50.3% 18.7% 69.0%
2004-2005 49.0% 15.2% 64.3%
2003-2004 52.8% 12.2% 65.0%
ACT Results: This table shows the average ACT score for the senior class, along with a letter grade for evaluation. For this table, information is available back to 1995. It appears as if the state stopped reporting this number beginning with the 2004-2005 school year.
Report Card ACT Letter
School Year Average Grade
2006-2007 Information Not Reported
2005-2006 Information Not Reported
2004-2005 Information Not Reported
2003-2004 20.4 C
2002-2003 20.3 C
2001-2002 20.3 C
2000-2001 20.3 C
1999-2000 20.2 C
1998-1999 20.2 C
1997-1998 20.2 C
1996-1997 20.1 C
1995-1996 20.0 C
SAT Results: Alabama students in grades 3-8 are given the test each year. Prior to the 2001-2002 school year, students in grades 3-11 were tested. For this table, information is available back to 1995. This information was not provided for the 2006-2007 school year.
Report Card Student
School Year Gr 3 Gr 4 Gr 5 Gr 6 Gr 7 Gr 8 Gr 9 Gr10 Gr11 Avg
2006-2007 Information Not Reported
2005-2006 50 61 56 50 52 49 N/A N/A N/A 53
2004-2005 49 59 54 48 51 49 N/A N/A N/A 51
2003-2004 47 58 52 47 51 50 N/A N/A N/A 50
2002-2003 46 57 52 47 53 51 N/A N/A N/A 51
2001-2002 54 56 52 56 54 54 N/A N/A N/A 54
2000-2001 55 58 56 59 56 56 52 50 53 55
1999-2000 55 59 57 61 57 57 53 50 53 56
1998-1999 55 58 57 60 56 56 51 49 53 55
1997-1998 54 58 57 59 56 56 50 49 52 55
1996-1997 55 58 57 61 57 58 56 51 52 56
1995-1996 52 55 54 58 55 56 54 48 50 54
