School district · Alabama
Huntsville City
Huntsville City in Alabama: 46 public schools with 24,222 students and 17.8 students per teacher in the 2024–25 school year. It spent $14,224 per student in FY2024.
- Schools
- 46
- Students
- 24,222
- Students per teacher
- 17.8
- AL 17.4 · US 15.1
- Spending per student
- $14,224
- AL $13.6K · US $17.6K
Staff
Full-time equivalents reported by the district. Ratios are students per staff member: lower means more staff for each student, not better results.
- Teachers (FTE)
- 1,358
- Counselors (FTE)
- 58.0
- Students per counselor
- 418
- AL 400 · US 357
- Psychologists (FTE)
- 0.0
- Librarians (FTE): 41.0
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on Alabama's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
Alabama: 60%58%proficient
+3.4 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 53% of school districts in Alabama
Median 59% · 151 school districts compared
10,455 students tested, grades 3–8 · ACAP; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
Alabama: 35%32%proficient
+4.3 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 50% of school districts in Alabama
Median 32% · 151 school districts compared
10,570 students tested, grades 3–8 · ACAP; proficient means Levels 3-4
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
Money
Current spending pays for staff, services and supplies; buildings and debt are counted apart. It follows local costs and needs (special education, long bus routes), so it is a comparison, not a grade.
- Federal
- 11% · $53.6M
- State
- 39% · $182.7M
- Local
- 50% · $236.3M
Per student (FY2024)
- Instruction
- $7,516
- Support services
- $6,016
- Buildings and equipment (capital outlay)
- $52.3M
- Long-term debt
- $70.8M
Schools
Open public schools of the district in the 2024–25 school year.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher | Reading | Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Academy For Academics Arts Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 400 | 17.4 | 57% | 21% |
Academy For Science Foreign LanguageFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 303 | 13.8 | 73% | 47% |
Blossomwood Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–6 | 596 | 15.9 | 63% | 38% |
Challenger Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 491 | 17.5 | 67% | 40% |
Chapman Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 167 | 15.1 | — | — |
Farley Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 334 | 17.8 | 68% | 50% |
| Pre-K–5 | 935 | 17.4 | 84% | 62% | |
| Pre-K–5 | 711 | 18.1 | 92% | 76% | |
Highlands Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–6 | 370 | 17.1 | 40% | 15% |
James Dawson ElementaryFree meals for all | Pre-K–6 | 447 | 17.1 | 33% | 16% |
Jones Valley Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–6 | 471 | 17.4 | 79% | 58% |
Lakewood Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–6 | 397 | 17.3 | 38% | 12% |
Martin Luther King Jr Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 458 | 17.0 | 31% | 13% |
McDonnell Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 511 | 18.9 | 31% | 15% |
Monte Sano Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–6 | 263 | 15.7 | 87% | 73% |
Montview Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 213 | 16.5 | 35% | 15% |
Morris Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 532 | 18.0 | 40% | 17% |
Mountain Gap Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 341 | 17.2 | 86% | 75% |
Providence ElementaryFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 1,152 | 21.3 | 48% | 25% |
Ridgecrest Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 463 | 15.4 | 40% | 25% |
Roger B Chaffee Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 396 | 16.0 | 65% | 43% |
Rolling Hills Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–6 | 483 | 17.0 | 39% | 22% |
Sonnie Hereford Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–6 | 578 | 18.6 | 35% | 15% |
Weatherly Heights Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 472 | 15.7 | 74% | 47% |
Whitesburg Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 379 | 15.8 | 59% | 33% |
Williams Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 484 | 17.9 | 54% | 33% |
Academy For Science Foreign Language Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 194 | 14.9 | 78% | 39% |
Academy for Academics and Arts Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 270 | 13.8 | 67% | 25% |
Challenger Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–9 | 425 | 18.5 | 74% | 37% |
Chapman Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 315 | 15.1 | 32% | 3.3% |
| 6–8 | 785 | 22.4 | 89% | 65% | |
Huntsville Junior High SchoolFree meals for all | 7–8 | 530 | 20.8 | 52% | 20% |
Morris Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 397 | 15.9 | 40% | 10% |
Mountain Gap Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 366 | 15.9 | 74% | 46% |
Ronald McNair 78Free meals for all | 7–8 | 390 | 19.5 | 30% | 5.0% |
Whitesburg Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 535 | 18.4 | 38% | 11% |
Williams Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 659 | 22.0 | 50% | 17% |
Columbia High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 916 | 17.0 | — | — |
Huntsville Center For TechnologyCareer and technical | 9–12 | — | — | — | — |
| 9–12 | 1,807 | 17.5 | — | — | |
Jemison High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 858 | 19.5 | — | — |
Lee High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 877 | 18.1 | — | — |
New Century Technology High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 366 | 13.6 | — | — |
Virgil Grissom High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,847 | 18.6 | — | — |
Artemis Virtual AcademyFully virtual | K–12 | 338 | 67.6 | 50% | 6.5% |
Mental Health CenterSpecial education | K–12 | — | — | — | — |
Reading and Math: share of tested students proficient or above on the state's own tests (grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year). Compare only within a state.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
Sources
- Address
- 714 Bob Wallace Avenue, Huntsville, AL 35801
- Phone
- (256)428-6812
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- Annual Survey of School System Finances (U.S. Census Bureau), FY2024. U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances (F-33).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.