3 Huntsville schools get perfect scores on new Alabama report cards

Alabama public schools showed improvement over the past year according to the 2025-26 state report card.

The Alabama Department of Education received an 88 overall score, up from last year’s 87. The report showed statewide improvements in several categories including:

Graduation rates
College readiness
Chronic absenteeism
Academic achievement

Keep reading to see more numbers from this year’s state report card + find out which schools stood out above the rest.

2025-26 Alabama state report card

The annual state report card evaluates all public schools across Alabama, using several different metrics. Here are some of the statewide numbers from this year’s report card:

Overall score: 88 (⬆️ 1 from 2025)
Academic achievement: 69.20 (⬆️ 2.20)
Academic growth: 97.07 (🔻0.01)
Graduation rate: 92.77 (⬆️ 1.21)
English language proficiency: 49.92 (⬆️ 4.27)
Chronic absenteeism: 10.54 (🔻1.51)
College + career readiness: 90.70 (⬆️ 1.82)

Vestavia Hills Mountain Brook High Schools 1 — Vestavia Hills High School (Jacob Blankenship / Bham Now)

Top Alabama public school districts

According to this year’s report card, 60 total school districts received an overall A including 13 receiving that mark for the first time.

Eleven school districts received a score of 97 or more including:

Mountain Brook City (99)
Orange Beach City (98)
Piedmont City (98)
Vestavia Hills City (98)
Arab City (97)
Cullman City (97)
Gulf Shores City (97)
Hartselle City (97)
Homewood City (97)
Saraland City (97)
Trussville City (97)

A total of 447 schools received an A grade this year, up from 384 last year. Just 15 schools received an F grade which is down from the high of 58 in 2023.

27 individual schools received a perfect 100 score including: