Wicksburg High School
Newton, AL 36352
Phone: (334) 692-5549
Fax: (334) 692-3184
District: Houston County School District
GreatSchools Rating
public • Grades K-12 • 454 students
Newton's Wicksburg High School serves grades K-12 in the Houston County School District. It is among the few public schools in Alabama to receive a distinguished GreatSchools Rating of 8 out of 10.
Wicksburg High School is a public school located in Newton, AL. 454 students attend Wicksburg High School.
School Ratings
| Category | Rating | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Test Scores | 10/10 | The Test Score Rating examines how students at this school performed on standardized tests compared with other schools in the state. The Test Rating was created using 2025 Alabama Comprehensive Assessment Program data from Alabama Department of Education. |
| College Readiness | 10/10 | The College Readiness Rating uses this high school's graduation rates, college entrance exam participation and performance, or AP, IB, or Dual Enrollment participation to determine how well schools are preparing students for success in college and beyond. The College Readiness Rating was created using 2019 ACT percent college ready data from Alabama Department of Education, using the following data from the 2021 Civil Rights Data Collection: percentage of students enrolled in IB, AP or Dual Enrollment classes in grades 9-12, using 2025 4-year high school graduation rate data from Alabama Department of Education, and using 2025 demographic data from Alabama Department of Education. |
| Student Growth | 10/10 | The Student Progress Rating measures whether students at this school are making academic progress over time based on student growth data provided by the Department of Education. Specifically, this rating looks at how much progress individual students have made on state assessments during the past year or more, how this performance aligns with expected progress based on a student growth model established by the state Department of Education, and how this school's growth data compares to other schools in the state. The Growth Rating was created using 2025 Student growth data from Alabama Department of Education. |
Posted: May 12, 2026
This school is absolutely ridiculous they refused inform you if they do anything to your children like for instance a teacher had hit my daughter in the nose with a ball so hard it made it bleed and the teacher told her to play and my daughter was afraid of this teacher I picked her up and she was scared and terrified and I saw that there was blood on her nose and her face her nose were swollen with a bruise I then contacted the principal the principal told me that he will get to the bottom of it and he'll see what happened next day he said that it was an accident and he refused to let me see the cameras he refused to give me an instant report and kept lying to the school district telling them that it was never a teacher and so much more I have evidence of it all they even lost my daughter twice and try to blame her for losing her and not putting her on the right bus or in the right car line and they are hard to contact about trying to get your child to ride home or ride to wherever they need to go for them to be somewhere they're ridiculous they don't care about your children they told me several times it won't ever happen again but yet my daughter is constantly being abused and lost at this school if you can do not bring your child to this school
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Posted: May 20, 2023
Nepotism and Bullying. The teachers are a part of the problem.
SpEd kids get put into detention so the school can spend the monies elsewhere and not have to accommodate them.
Posted: May 4, 2013
Wicksburg Elementary and High School Very personal and academically driven. The teachers care about the success of each student and the administration would go to any length to protect and guide their students as they would their own children. It is not an over-crowded school like those in Enterprise or Dothan so teachers are able to give students the attention they need. Recommended for anyone who wants their children to excel in life!
Posted: October 11, 2012
Wicksburg is a great school. Some will not like it because it is small and more personal. Others will love it for that. There are the typical folks who want to be the "big fish" in the little pond, but they are at every school. There are some teachers (not many) that you would not want your kids to suffer through and there are the ones that you would fight for your kids to be taught by. In a small school, everyone knows which is which. No school is perfect, including this one. The kids that attend here have been taught right from wrong, they believe in God, and know that anything they do will get back to their parents because of the nature of a small school. Nepotism is an issue and needs to be looked at closely. The school staff loves "their" kids (all of them). If you are not used to hearing your name prefaced by Sir or Maam, you should try this school. It is refreshing to be around respectful kids. This school still retains some of the moral values we in the South were raised with. There are problems everywhere in schools, but at least when there is a problem in Wicksburg, it gets addressed and fixed.
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