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Lawson State Community College

Birmingham, Alabama · Public · Two-year · Founded 1949

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.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
3060 Wilson Rd SW, Birmingham, AL 35221-1717
Control
Public
IPEDS unit id
101569
OPE id
00105900
Federal student aid
Participates in Title IV federal student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
On the map
Placed on the Ledger map by an exact match from the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder on 2026-09-14: 3060 WILSON RD SW, BIRMINGHAM, AL, 35221. See it on the Ledger map.

No enrollment figure is published on this page. The Ledger prints one only with a dated NCES citation, and none is attached to this record.

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. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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