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LSCC(Lawson State Community College)

School colors: Navy Blue and Gold

Birmingham, Alabama · Founded 1949

Public · Two-year · ~3,200 students

www.lawsonstate.edu · official site

Founding

Lawson State Community College's career technical division began as the Wenonah State Technical Institute on August 24, 1949, in Birmingham, Alabama. Its academic division, first named Wenonah State Junior College, opened in 1965.

Source: LSCC History, Lawson State Community College, read 2026-09-14.

On the official record

Campus address
3060 Wilson Rd SW, Birmingham, AL 35221-1717
Control
Public
Students
~3,200 students
Directory id
101569
OPE id
00105900
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
3060 Wilson Rd SW, Birmingham, 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 33.450814, -86.888844 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 101569. 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. LSCC History, Lawson State Community College. https://www.lawsonstate.edu/about_us/lscc_history.aspx. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 3,153 total, Fall 2023 (3,153 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: Navy Blue and Gold. Values shown are conventional approximations of the named colors. Lawson State Community College, Wikipedia (revision 1359746456). 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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