Overview

Vestavia Hills High School is a public high school founded in 1970, serving Vestavia Hills, a Birmingham suburb in Jefferson County, as part of the single-high-school Vestavia Hills City Schools district. The district also operates a separate 9th-grade freshman campus about a mile away.

Academics

NCES directory data for 2024-25 records 146 students eligible for free lunch and 14 for reduced-price lunch out of roughly 1,625 total enrollment -- a low share consistent with the district's higher-income suburban setting. School-specific Alabama Comprehensive Assessment Program results weren't independently verified for this profile; check the Alabama State Department of Education's report-card site directly for current proficiency figures.

Neighborhood

Vestavia Hills is a majority-homeowner suburb of about 38,700 people in Jefferson County, generally ranked among Alabama's higher-income communities, with a mostly residential character built around its school system.

Crime & safety

FBI-data-based analysis puts Vestavia Hills' five-year (2019-2024) average violent crime rate at roughly 85% below the national average, and property crime about 48% below. A local news report citing police department figures noted burglaries fell slightly from 24 in 2024 to 22 in 2025, and vehicle thefts dropped by half over the same period.

Crime-index sources disagree depending on which category is measured: violent crime alone ranks Vestavia Hills in the 82nd percentile for safety nationally, but the same provider's broader "overall crime" measure (weighted more heavily toward property crime like theft) placed it lower, in the 39th percentile. Both figures come from the same source -- the difference is entirely in what's being counted, not a data error.

Our calculated rating

We don't publish a single proprietary score. Based on the components we could source for this school -- safety percentile only, since school-specific assessment data wasn't independently verified for this profile -- a rating would reflect just 1 of 3 possible components, which we consider too thin to display responsibly. See our ratings methodology for how this works when more components are available.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia, "Vestavia Hills High School," cross-checked against NCES ID 010343001304.
  2. NCES Common Core of Data, School Search -- Vestavia Hills High School, 2024-25 school year.
  3. Niche.com and CrimeGrade.org, Vestavia Hills profile and violent-crime analysis, 2025.
  4. CrimeExplorer.com, Vestavia Hills 5-year FBI crime data summary.
  5. VestaviaVoice.com, "Crime in Vestavia Hills drops 8% in 2025," citing Vestavia Hills Police Department data.