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Enrollment
400
Elementary
DISTRICT 475 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HUNTSVILLE CITY·NCES 010180000620
Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School
4800 Sparkman Drive NE, Huntsville, AL 35810 · (256) 428-7600 · Madison County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL400 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 14% of Alabama public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Alabama public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.0:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
193 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 58%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 18 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 29% smaller than its 5th grade class (75).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
57.5%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
20.8%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
Source: ACAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
36.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.9%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Alabama's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School
Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School's state test result (36.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School this school | 400 | 48.3% | 36.4% |
| Whitesburg Elementary School Huntsville | 379 | 52.0% | 44.9% |
| Old Shell Road Magnet School Mobile | 369 | 52.6% | 81.5% |
| Big Sandy Elementary Moundville | 522 | 46.2% | 43.0% |
| Williams Elementary School Huntsville | 484 | 46.1% | 42.3% |
| Academy For Science Foreign Language Huntsville | 303 | 44.2% | 60.0% |
Matched among Alabama elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Madison County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.4% | #448 of 626 | #37 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.8% | #502 of 626 | #40 of 48 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.5% | #388 of 626 | #35 of 48 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 400 | #440 of 709 | #37 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.4:1 | #384 of 655 | #30 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.7% | #156 of 658 | #25 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.3% | #504 of 696 | #20 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -39.6% | #19 of 364 | #4 of 29 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
400
-2 (0%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 432
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
was 14.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 400 | 23 | 17.4:1 | 48% (193) |
| 2023-24 | 395 | 23.1 | 17.1:1 | 39% (156) |
| 2022-23 | 388 | 22.1 | 17.5:1 | 39% (153) |
| 2020-21 | 402 | 27 | 14.9:1 | 40% (159) |
| 2017-18 | 662 | 44 | 15.1:1 | 39% (260) |
| 2015-16 | 653 | 46 | 14.2:1 | 24% (154) |
| 2010-11 | 434 | 50 | 8.7:1 | 29% (127) |
| 2000-01 | 396 | 31 | 12.8:1 | 27% (108) |
| 1990-91 | 432 | 34 | 12.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 40% (662 to 400); teachers down 48% (44 to 23).
About Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School
Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School is a small elementary school for students in Huntsville, Alabama. The school has 400 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5.
Huntsville City, which runs Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School, has 44 schools and 24,222 students.
Black students are 57% of those enrolled at Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School. The rest of enrollment is 24% White, 12% multiracial, and 7% Hispanic. Census estimates put the Black share of Madison County's population at about 24%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 60%.
Its staff includes 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 17.4 students per teacher. It is about the same as the 17.0:1 average for elementary schools in Alabama. Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 48%.
On the allk12 Grade, Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School lands at D, ahead of 14% of Alabama public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School, the prediction is 48.9% and the result is 36.4%.
For the population of Madison County, the median household earns about $86,499 a year, about 46% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Across Madison County, 89 public schools serve about 55,800 students.
The closest school to Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School is Academy for Academics and Arts Middle School, located less than a tenth of a mile away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School. On proficiency, Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School is ahead of the 32.9% nearby average, ranking 4th of 9.
Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School is coded as City: Mid-size in federal locale data.
Federal data show 402 students in 2020-21 and 400 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%. By 2024-25, the school had 17.4 students per teacher, compared with 14.9 in 2020-21.
Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Madison County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
405,718
Census ACS
Median income
$86,499
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
89
55,800 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Huntsville City
- Virgil Grissom High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Huntsville High SchoolHigh · 1,807 students
- Providence ElementaryElementary · 1,152 students
- GoldsmithSchiffman ElementaryElementary · 935 students
- Columbia High SchoolHigh · 916 students
- Lee High SchoolHigh · 877 students
Other schools in Huntsville
- Virgil Grissom High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Huntsville High SchoolHigh · 1,807 students
- Providence ElementaryElementary · 1,152 students
- Monrovia Middle SchoolMiddle · 988 students
- Columbia High SchoolHigh · 916 students
- Lee High SchoolHigh · 877 students
Nearby schools
- Academy for Academics and Arts Middle School0.0 mi · 270
- Highlands Elementary School0.3 mi · 370
- James Dawson Elementary0.9 mi · 447
- Montview Elementary School1.7 mi · 213
- Academy For Science Foreign Language Middle School1.7 mi · 194
- Academy For Science Foreign Language1.7 mi · 303
Frequently asked questions
About Academy For Academics Arts Elementary SchoolHow large is Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School?
Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School enrolls approximately 400 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School serve?
Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School is approximately 17.4:1 (23 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School?
At Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School, the student body is approximately 24% White, 7% Hispanic, 57% Black, 0% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School public or private?
Academy For Academics Arts Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Huntsville City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.