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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Brocks Gap Intermediate School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
521
Elementary
DISTRICT 557 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOOVER CITY·NCES 010000702186
Brocks Gap Intermediate School
1730 Lake Cyrus Club Drive, Hoover, AL 35244 · (205) 439-1600 · Jefferson County
GRADES 02–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL521 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
104 students
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 58%
Community
6
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 2 | 1 | 0% |
| Grade 3 | 185 | 36% |
| Grade 4 | 176 | 34% |
| Grade 5 | 159 | 31% |
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
87.9%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
73.4%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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
77.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.4%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 Brocks Gap Intermediate School
Brocks Gap Intermediate School's state test result (77.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brocks Gap Intermediate School this school | 521 | 20.0% | 77.4% |
| Greystone Elementary School Hoover | 438 | 15.5% | 83.9% |
| Columbia Elementary School Madison | 701 | 25.1% | 70.7% |
| Madison Elementary School Madison | 603 | 27.4% | 72.0% |
| Rock Quarry Elementary School Tuscaloosa | 671 | 13.4% | 76.7% |
| Vestavia Hills Elementary West Vestavia Hills | 691 | 13.5% | 81.0% |
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 Brocks Gap Intermediate School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.4% | #41 of 626 | #14 of 89 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.4% | #32 of 626 | #11 of 89 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.9% | #36 of 626 | #16 of 89 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 521 | #267 of 709 | #46 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #88 of 655 | #18 of 93 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.4% | #91 of 658 | #7 of 94 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.0% | #671 of 696 | #82 of 96 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -35.4% | #24 of 364 | #6 of 58 |
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
521
+83 (+19%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 521 | 35 | 14.9:1 | 20% (104) |
| 2023-24 | 495 | 32 | 15.5:1 | 22% (110) |
| 2022-23 | 492 | 33.5 | 14.7:1 | 24% (116) |
| 2020-21 | 438 | 30 | 14.6:1 | 14% (61) |
| 2017-18 | 807 | 50.3 | 16.0:1 | 25% (201) |
| 2015-16 | 828 | 56 | 14.8:1 | 24% (198) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Brocks Gap Intermediate School.
Since 2017-18: students down 35% (807 to 521); teachers down 30% (50.3 to 35).
About Brocks Gap Intermediate School
As a mid-sized elementary school, Brocks Gap Intermediate School serves students in Hoover, Alabama. It offers grades 2 through 5 and has 521 students enrolled.
Brocks Gap Intermediate School reports to Hoover City, which has 16 schools and 13,632 students.
More than half of the students at Brocks Gap Intermediate School are White (53%). The rest of enrollment is 24% Black, 9% Asian, 7% multiracial, and 6% Hispanic. The diversity index for Brocks Gap Intermediate School is 64%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 35 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 14.9:1. Compared with the 17.0:1 average for elementary schools in Alabama, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 20%. Among public schools in Jefferson County, the average eligibility rate is 52%.
On BeatsExpectations, Brocks Gap Intermediate School is 8.0 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Alabama schools.
Jefferson County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $66,388 a year, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's public schools total 181, with about 97,401 students.
South Shades Crest Elementary School sits about 0.8 miles from Brocks Gap Intermediate School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Brocks Gap Intermediate School comes in 2nd of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
The school's student count increased 19% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
667,755
Census ACS
Median income
$66,388
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
181
97,401 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hoover City
- Hoover High SchoolHigh · 2,919 students
- Spain Park High SchoolHigh · 1,472 students
- Robert F Bumpus Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,192 students
- Berry Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,058 students
- Ira F Simmons Middle SchoolMiddle · 860 students
- Trace Crossings Elementary SchoolElementary · 769 students
Other schools in Hoover
- Hoover High SchoolHigh · 2,919 students
- Spain Park High SchoolHigh · 1,472 students
- Robert F Bumpus Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,192 students
- Berry Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,058 students
- Ira F Simmons Middle SchoolMiddle · 860 students
- Trace Crossings Elementary SchoolElementary · 769 students
Nearby schools
- South Shades Crest Elementary School0.8 mi · 534
- Deer Valley Elementary School1.9 mi · 735
- Robert F Bumpus Middle School2.2 mi · 1,192
- Trace Crossings Elementary School2.6 mi · 769
- Greenwood Elementary School2.6 mi · 290
- Hoover High School3.0 mi · 2,919
Frequently asked questions
About Brocks Gap Intermediate SchoolHow many students attend Brocks Gap Intermediate School?
Brocks Gap Intermediate School enrolls approximately 521 students in grades 02-05.
Is Brocks Gap Intermediate School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Brocks Gap Intermediate School is an elementary school covering grades 02-05.
How many students per teacher at Brocks Gap Intermediate School?
Approximately 14.9:1 students per teacher at Brocks Gap Intermediate School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Brocks Gap Intermediate School?
At Brocks Gap Intermediate School, the student body is approximately 53% White, 6% Hispanic, 24% Black, 9% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Brocks Gap Intermediate School public or private?
Brocks Gap Intermediate School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Hoover City.
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