Oak Mountain High School is a four-year public high school in the northern Shelby County suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama. It is the largest of Shelby County School System's seven high schools. School colors are red, white, and blue, and the athletic teams are called the Eagles. Oak Mountain competes in AHSAA Class 7A athletics.RecognitionOak Mountain has been consistently recognized as one of the best high schools in Alabama: SchoolDigger ranks Oak Mountain 6th out of 357 high schools in the state and 3rd among high schools in the Birmingham metropolitan area. The Washington Post ranked Oak Mountain 7th among the 12 Alabama schools included in its list of America's Most Challenging High Schools. Oak Mountain was one of eight Alabama high schools included in the Daily Beast's 2014 list of America's Top High Schools. Oak Mountain was also named a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education, the highest recognition a high school can receive from the department.Student profileEnrollment in grades 9-12 for the 2013-14 school year is 1,645 students. Approximately 82% of students are white, 9% are African-American, 5% are Asian-American, and 4% are Hispanic. Roughly 10% of students qualify for free or reduced price lunch.
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