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Gadsden State(Gadsden State Community College)

School colors: Red, black and silver

Gadsden, Alabama · Founded 1925

Public · Two-year · ~4,700 students

www.gadsdenstate.edu · official site

Founding

Gadsden State Community College's oldest campus was established in 1925 as the Alabama School of Trades, which the college calls the first state-operated trade school in the South. Its Gadsden State Technical Institute began in 1960 as the Gadsden Vocational Trade School, a private vocational school for African Americans founded by Eugene N. Prater.

Source: At a Glance, Gadsden State Community College, read 2026-09-14.

On the official record

Campus address
1001 George Wallace Dr, Gadsden, AL 35903
Control
Public
Students
~4,700 students
Directory id
101240
OPE id
00101700
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
1001 George Wallace Dr, Gadsden, AL. See it on the Ledger map.
Where this location comes fromCampus location from IPEDS 2024-25This campus location comes from the federal IPEDS 2024-25 record, used as published, so the pin on the map is the campus.IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 collection, file dated 2025-09-21, retrieved 2026-09-14: coordinate 33.994001, -85.991438 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder also matched this address exactly on 2026-09-14.

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Sources

  1. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 provisional data collection. Unit id 101240. https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/HD2024.zip. File dated 2025-09-21.
  2. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education. Higher Education Programs Eligibility Matrix, sheet 'HBCU', dated 2026-06-08. https://www.ed.gov/media/document/fy-2026-higher-education-programs-eligibility-matrix-june-8-2026-114185.xlsx.
  3. At a Glance, Gadsden State Community College. https://www.gadsdenstate.edu/about-us/at-a-glance-. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 4,728 total, Fall 2023 (4,728 undergraduate, 0 graduate). IPEDS Fall Enrollment 2023, derived variables (DRVEF2023). https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/DRVEF2023.zip. File dated 2024-09-30, read 2026-09-17.
  5. School colors: Red, black and silver. Values as stated. Gadsden State Community College, Wikipedia (revision 1368475876). Read 2026-09-16.
  6. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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