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Auburn continues to take more top kids from instate
Posted on 8/20/26 at 2:52 pm
Posted on 8/20/26 at 2:52 pm
US News and World Report came out with their list of Top High Schools in America. If you take the Top 20 High Schools from the state of Alabama and compare where kids went to college according to the Alabama Commission of Higher Education's website, here's the breakdown:
In total, Auburn took 1,101 students to Bama's 677 students according to the most recent data.
Auburn took more kids from 14 of the Top 20 high schools in the state including 8 of the Top 9.
This is about the 15th consecutive year that the data looks the same. Bama's grow enrollment at all cost from kids up North strategy has absolutely killed their ability to take the top kids from inside the state.
Below is the school by school breakdown...
1. New Century Tech, Huntsville
Auburn- 11
Bama- 3
2. Homewood High School
Auburn- 72
Bama- 37
3. Mountain Brook High School
Auburn- 74
Bama- 75
4. Vestavia Hills High School
Auburn- 149
Bama- 90
5. Hewitt-Trussville High School
Auburn- 72
Bama- 26
6. Fairhope High School
Auburn- 54
Bama- 34
7. Spain Park High School, Hoover
Auburn- 65
Bama- 47
8. Oak Mountain High School
Auburn- 67
Bama- 42
9. James Clemons High School, Madison
Auburn- 62
Bama- 38
10. Arab High School
Auburn- 7
Bama- 7
11. Huntsville High School
Auburn- 58
Bama- 47
12. TR Miller High School, Breton
Auburn- 8
Bama- 3
13. Bob Jones High School, Madison
Auburn- 39
Bama- 43
14. Auburn High School
Auburn- 203
Bama- 17
15. Spanish Fort High School, Baldwin C.
Auburn- 29
Bama- 23
16. Hoover High School
Auburn- 86
Bama- 96
17. Cullman High School
Auburn- 21
Bama- 18
18. Madison County High School
Auburn- 2
Bama- 8
19. Hartselle High School
Auburn- 16
Bama- 19
20. Jacksonville High School
Auburn- 6
Bama- 3
In total, Auburn took 1,101 students to Bama's 677 students according to the most recent data.
Auburn took more kids from 14 of the Top 20 high schools in the state including 8 of the Top 9.
This is about the 15th consecutive year that the data looks the same. Bama's grow enrollment at all cost from kids up North strategy has absolutely killed their ability to take the top kids from inside the state.
Below is the school by school breakdown...
1. New Century Tech, Huntsville
Auburn- 11
Bama- 3
2. Homewood High School
Auburn- 72
Bama- 37
3. Mountain Brook High School
Auburn- 74
Bama- 75
4. Vestavia Hills High School
Auburn- 149
Bama- 90
5. Hewitt-Trussville High School
Auburn- 72
Bama- 26
6. Fairhope High School
Auburn- 54
Bama- 34
7. Spain Park High School, Hoover
Auburn- 65
Bama- 47
8. Oak Mountain High School
Auburn- 67
Bama- 42
9. James Clemons High School, Madison
Auburn- 62
Bama- 38
10. Arab High School
Auburn- 7
Bama- 7
11. Huntsville High School
Auburn- 58
Bama- 47
12. TR Miller High School, Breton
Auburn- 8
Bama- 3
13. Bob Jones High School, Madison
Auburn- 39
Bama- 43
14. Auburn High School
Auburn- 203
Bama- 17
15. Spanish Fort High School, Baldwin C.
Auburn- 29
Bama- 23
16. Hoover High School
Auburn- 86
Bama- 96
17. Cullman High School
Auburn- 21
Bama- 18
18. Madison County High School
Auburn- 2
Bama- 8
19. Hartselle High School
Auburn- 16
Bama- 19
20. Jacksonville High School
Auburn- 6
Bama- 3
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Posted on 8/20/26 at 2:56 pm to AUTiger789
Cool. How has that worked out for y'all?
Posted on 8/20/26 at 3:01 pm to AUTiger789
BAMA is raking in the out of state tuition dollars.
Posted on 8/20/26 at 3:05 pm to m2pro
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Cool. How has that worked out for y'all?
Kinda what I was thinking. Not the burn he thinks it is.
Posted on 8/20/26 at 3:06 pm to AUTiger789
The funny thing is you don't realize Alabama has done this by design.
Posted on 8/20/26 at 3:08 pm to m2pro
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Cool. How has that worked out for y'all?
Pretty well actually. There used to be no real gap between Auburn and Bama in the academic rankings... Auburn now solidly ahead and the gap seems to grow each year.
Posted on 8/20/26 at 3:17 pm to AUTiger789
Congrats. How is that translating to athletics
Posted on 8/20/26 at 3:24 pm to AUTiger789
Looks to me like Alabama has become more selective with who they take from in state. We only want the cream of the crop.
Posted on 8/20/26 at 3:25 pm to Nitro Express
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The funny thing is you don't realize Alabama has done this by design.
Done what? Strategized to get more kids from lower rated high schools? Alabama has more instate kids... just from the lower rated high schools.
Alabama:
Took 2,225 students from the Alabama public school system. If 677 were from Top 20 rated high schools, that means 30%. So 70% of the in-state kids Bama is taking are coming from high schools rated outside the Top 20.
Auburn:
Took 2,202 students from the Alabama public school system. If 1,101 were from Top 20 rated high schools, that means exactly 50%. So half of all of Auburn's instate enrollees were from the Top 20 public high schools.
Posted on 8/20/26 at 3:26 pm to TheTideMustRoll
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Looks to me like Alabama has become more selective with who they take from in state. We only want the cream of the crop.
Well you must have had a Bama education if you think that. The data says the absolute opposite.
This post was edited on 8/20/26 at 3:31 pm
Posted on 8/20/26 at 3:27 pm to AUTiger789
Thanks, Grok. 2 more weeks, folks!
Posted on 8/20/26 at 3:30 pm to AUTiger789
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Well you bust have had a Bama education
boog Engwish major?
Posted on 8/20/26 at 3:37 pm to AUTiger789
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In total, Auburn took 1,101 students to Bama's 677 students
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14. Auburn High School
Auburn- 203
Bama- 17
The idiocy of this attempted correlation notwithstanding, around half of the difference is because of Auburn High School alone?
Posted on 8/20/26 at 3:43 pm to paperwasp
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The idiocy of this attempted correlation notwithstanding, around half of the difference is because of Auburn High School alone?
So Auburn gets penalized for actually being located in a community with an excellent public school?
Sorry Tuscaloosa is such a shithole that it can't produce a single high school in the Top 40 (Northridge comes in at #44)... but that might just be part of Bama's problem. The place is a shithole.
Posted on 8/20/26 at 3:46 pm to AUTiger789
Alabama has one of the worst school systems in the country, so it's kind of a weird flex to brag about taking more kids from a bad school system than Bama. 
Posted on 8/20/26 at 3:47 pm to AUTiger789
So this is what Auburn fans have been reduced to.
Posted on 8/20/26 at 3:51 pm to AUTiger789
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Bama's grow enrollment at all cost from kids up North strategy has absolutely killed their ability to take the top kids from inside the state.
5-7 , 5-7 , 6-7 , 5-7 , 6-7 says otherwise
Posted on 8/20/26 at 3:52 pm to GoGators1995
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So this is what Auburn fans have been reduced to
Five losing seasons and a nepo head coaching hire will apparently reduce you to spouting random facts about high school academics and regional crime statistics.
Posted on 8/20/26 at 3:52 pm to Sl0thstronautEsq
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Alabama has one of the worst school systems in the country,
Okay. That's why we're looking at the top ones.
Alabama's Top 8 high schools rank in the Top 5% of all high schools in America: LINK
Auburn took 564 kids from those 8 high schools to Bama's 354... For those of you who went to Alabama, that means Auburn took 59% more kids from the states top high schools compared to Bama.
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it's kind of a weird flex to brag about taking more kids from a bad school system than Bama.
It's a hell of a better flex than bragging your school took more kids from the worst high schools from one of the worst states for education.
This post was edited on 8/20/26 at 3:54 pm
Posted on 8/20/26 at 3:53 pm to AUTiger789
You would have been better off just asking someone for a hug than whatever this is.
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