Photo by Erin Nelson Starnes Media
Trussville City School bus
School busses parked in front of Cahaba Elementary School in Trussville on Tuesday, April 14, 2020. Photo by Erin Nelson.
Trussville City Schools was recently named one of the top five school districts in Alabama by Back Ground Checks.
According to a press release, “Trussville City Schools is Alabama’s third best school district. Composed of five schools serving Trussville, an affluent suburb of Birmingham, TCS is an elite district that performs well on assessment tests and boasts a dropout rate below one percent.”
The following variables contributed to the ranking:number of students (K-12), graduation rate, school funding per student, student-to-teacher ratio, percent of students scoring above proficient in standardized state math test, and percent of students scoring above proficient in standardized state reading and language test. Data from a total of 10,247 public school districts were used to compute a score for each school district.
Submitted by Trussville City Schools.
