Alabama Releases 2025-26 Federal School Report Cards
The Alabama Department of Education published federal report card data for local school systems covering achievement, growth, graduation, and readiness.
Updated on Nov. 13, 2026 in Secondary Education
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The Alabama Department of Education released 2025-26 federal school report cards for local school systems. The data covers individual schools and entire districts across academic achievement, academic growth, graduation rates, and college and career readiness.
Why it matters
The federal report cards give families a way to compare schools and districts on several measures in one place. The results are districtwide, so individual school results can differ from the system-level figures.
Academic achievement and growth are reported as scores, while graduation and college and career readiness are reported as rates. Cullman City Schools led the 29 listed systems with an achievement score of 94.18, and nine systems posted a growth score of 100.
The players
Alabama Department of Education
The state agency that oversees public K-12 education in Alabama and publishes school accountability reports for families and districts.
The details
Families can select a year, school system, and individual school on the Alabama Department of Education federal report card site. Alabama also publishes a separate state report card that uses different rules and assigns letter grades.
Timeline
The federal report card data covers the 2025-26 school year.
Season Trajectory
Federal report cards under the Every Student Succeeds Act require states to publish annual school-level accountability data on achievement, growth, and graduation. This release continues that recurring reporting cycle for Alabama families comparing schools.
Parents can look up their child's school and district on the Alabama federal report card site to compare achievement, growth, graduation, and readiness figures. Checking the individual school page alongside the district total gives a fuller picture than either alone.
The takeaway
Scores are most useful when read alongside the individual school result, since district averages can hide wide differences between buildings. Comparing both levels gives families a clearer sense of how a specific school performs.
Further reading
Explore more on Secondary Education for context on how school performance is measured across the state.
More information
Read the WAFF report on how North Alabama school systems scored on the federal report cards for regional results.
Source note: This article includes information reported by Waff.
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