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Drake State(J. F. Drake State Community and Technical College)

School colors: Blue and White

Huntsville, Alabama · Founded 1961

Public · Two-year · ~1,000 students

drakestate.edu · official site

Founding

J. F. Drake State Community and Technical College traces its start to 1961, when the state founded a group of two-year technical institutions to serve the career education needs of African Americans, and Huntsville State Vocational Technical School opened in 1962 with 27 students in four programs. In 1966 the school was renamed for Joseph Fanning Drake, the long-time president of Alabama A&M University.

Source: History, J. F. Drake State Community and Technical College, read 2026-09-14.

What the school says about itself

On the record
  • Drake became the first two-year college to receive the Nunn-Perry award. Source, read 2026-09-17.

On the official record

Campus address
3421 Meridian St N, Huntsville, AL 35811
Control
Public
Students
~1,000 students
Directory id
101462
OPE id
00526000
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
3421 Meridian St N, Huntsville, 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 34.771858, -86.572885 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 101462. 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. History, J. F. Drake State Community and Technical College. https://drakestate.edu/about/history/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 1,011 total, Fall 2023 (1,011 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. History, Drake State Community and Technical College. https://drakestate.edu/about/history/. Read 2026-09-17.
  6. School colors: Blue and White. Values shown are conventional approximations of the named colors. J.F. Drake State Community and Technical College, Wikipedia (revision 1368151708). Read 2026-09-16.
  7. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

Enrollment is the official 2023 count, rounded. Tap a school for its source.

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