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Alabama, state file 01

Released October 8, 2026, in the SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025) cycle. Figures are as of the release.

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File number
01
Version
2.0
Cycle
SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025)
Released
October 8, 2026
Next scheduled re-audit
Not yet scheduled

Cite this version

National Deaf Education Data Index, Alabama state file version 2.0, SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025), released October 8, 2026, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23254313, https://www.ndedi.org/states/al/v2.0/

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National Deaf Education Data Index, Alabama state file version 2.0, SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025), released October 8, 2026, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23254313, https://www.ndedi.org/states/al/v2.0/

In plain language

Alabama educates most of its deaf and hard of hearing students in their local school systems and runs one state institution for the rest. The Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind in Talladega, founded in 1858, operates the Alabama School for the Deaf, the Helen Keller School for students with sensory loss and additional disabilities, an outreach service that sends specialists into public schools across the state, ten regional centers that provide early intervention for infants and services for adults, and the state deafblind project.

Alabama residents pay nothing for tuition, room, board or the buses home. The state counted 842 students with hearing impairment in October 2024, 150 of them in the Institute's own schools, and 874 a year later. The state budget gives the Institute about 85.6 million dollars for the year beginning October 2026, pays a separate 8.5 million dollar line for licensed interpreters and teachers of the deaf in the local systems, and names a private spoken language school and a school called Southwest School of Deaf and Blind in lines of their own. Of the 153 local systems, five publish a deaf program or a deaf education post of their own: Mobile County operates the Callahan School for the Deaf and Blind, Shelby County names a Deaf and Hard of Hearing department, and DeKalb, Jackson and Calhoun counties name a teacher of the hearing impaired.

Fifty-six systems mention hearing impairment, mostly as a category on an eligibility list, and eighty-eight publish nothing about it on the pages read. Four could not be read on either day. The school for the deaf teaches in American Sign Language from preschool and also runs a listening and spoken language program, and no local system names the Institute's outreach service on its own site.

A summary of this version for any reader, written with the file. The figures and sources behind each sentence are in the sections below.

Coverage summary

  • NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.
  • Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program.
  • 153Units in frameExhaustive frame
  • 149Readable subsetThe frame less NOT VERIFIABLE and NOT AUDITED: every unit whose pages were read
  • 4PROGRAM rows with a weak-evidence flag
Tallies by code, against the frame of 153 and the readable subset of 149
CodeUnitsPercent of framePercent of readable subset
PROGRAM53.3%3.4%
MENTION5636.6%37.6%
NONE FOUND8857.5%59.1%
NOT VERIFIABLE42.6%Outside the readable subset
NOT AUDITED00.0%Outside the readable subset
OUT OF FRAME00.0%0.0%
Coverage codes against the frameEach bar counts the units carrying that code. The codes record what agencies publish, not what they do.
Data sheet
Coverage codes against the frame
CategoryCountShare of 153
PROGRAM53%
MENTION5637%
NONE FOUND8858%
NOT VERIFIABLE43%

Shares are of the frame count, 153 units.As of October 8, 2026.

Tallies by agency typeFor each agency type, the units under each code, in the order the file first records the types.
  • PROGRAM
  • MENTION
  • NONE FOUND
  • NOT VERIFIABLE
Data sheet
Tallies by agency type
CategoryPROGRAMMENTIONNONE FOUNDNOT VERIFIABLETotal
City school system02844072
County school system52634267
Public charter school (own LEA)0210214

As of October 8, 2026.

As of October 8, 2026, the release date of this version.

The two formulations

  • NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.
  • Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program.

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The 5 standard regions of Alabama, each a group of whole counties:

  • North Alabama (the Tennessee Valley) 14 counties

    Lauderdale, Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan, Jackson, Marshall, DeKalb, Cullman, Cherokee, Winston, Marion

  • Greater Birmingham and East Alabama 14 counties

    Jefferson, Shelby, St. Clair, Blount, Walker, Bibb, Chilton, Talladega, Calhoun, Etowah, Cleburne, Clay, Coosa, Randolph

  • Gulf Coast and Southwest Alabama 8 counties

    Mobile, Baldwin, Escambia, Washington, Clarke, Monroe, Conecuh, Covington

  • Southeast Alabama (the Wiregrass) 13 counties

    Houston, Henry, Dale, Geneva, Coffee, Barbour, Pike, Bullock, Russell, Lee, Macon, Tallapoosa, Chambers

  • Central and West Alabama (Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and the Black Belt) 18 counties

    Autauga, Butler, Choctaw, Crenshaw, Dallas, Elmore, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Lamar, Lowndes, Marengo, Montgomery, Perry, Pickens, Sumter, Tuscaloosa, Wilcox

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