ACS Snapshot

Auburn City Schools serve as the premier public-school system for the Auburn community offering a K-12 system with more than 9,400 students.

Our schools consistently rank among the top in the state.

System Snapshot:

Class of 2025 Facts:

• 14 Campuses
• 9,438 Students 
• 1,174 full-time employees
• 70% possess advanced degrees
• Student-teacher ratio: 15:1
• Average teacher experience: 13.5 years
• Teaches with advanced degrees: 74%
• Teachers with Doctorates: 31
• Scholarships awarded: $25.1 million (2023)
• Average ACT score: 21.6 (Auburn High School) compared to 17.7 (statewide), and 19.8 (nationwide)
• Countries of origin within the student population: 50
• Languages spoken in homes of students: 41
• School Resource Officers systemwide: 18
• Full-time school nurses systemwide: 18
• 680 Graduates in class of 2025
• $26.4 million in scholarships offered to the Class of 2025
• 5 National Merit Commended Scholars
• 10 National Merit Semi-Finalists
• 9 National Merit Finalists
• 9 National Merit Institutional-Endowed Scholarship Recipients
• 3 Presidential Scholar Nominees
• 190 Total Number of Colleges/Universities Represented
• 6 US Service Academy Appointments (2-Air Force Academy; 2-West Point; 2-Naval Academy)
• More than 62% of the Class of 2025 offered scholarships
• 42 AP Scholars
• 25 AP Scholars with Honor
• 34 AP Scholars with Distinction
• 23 IB Diploma Candidates

New Campuses constructed since 2013:

• Pick Elementary - opened in 2013 with a capacity for 600 students.
• Auburn High School - opened in 2017 with a capacity for 2,200 students.
• Creekside Elementary - opened in 2018 with a capacity for 600 students.
• Cary Woods Elementary - opened in 2020 with a capacity for 600 students.
• J.F. Drake Middle School – opened in 2020 with a capacity for 1,000 students.
• Woodland Pines Elementary - opened in 2023 with a capacity for 600 students.

Technology:

• All teachers and administrators in the school system have Apple Macbooks in an effort to be able to work on both Windows and Mac platforms.
• 1:1 iPad initiative for all students at Auburn High School and Auburn Junior High School (3,330 iPads total rolled out in summer 2018).
• First SMART Showcase District in the country with SMART Panels in every classroom (interactive flat panel touch-screen monitors that serve as modern-day chalkboards).

ALSDE Alabama Teacher of the Year (2021-2022):

• Kimberly Johnson (AJHS) - Overall State Winner.

Rezoning:

• In 2013 ACS shifted to a model of having eight elementary schools with four K-2 facilities that feed into four 3-5 facilities. In 2018 the school system further rezoned to accommodate the opening of Creekside Elementary and in 2023 with the opening of Woodland Pines Elementary School. The system now has 10 elementary facilities.