Chapman Elementary School

Chapman Elementary School is an one-room-style elementary-level community in Huntsville, Alabama, operated by Huntsville City. The school hosts 167 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 65% below the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 480 students.

Within Huntsville City, which oversees 44 schools and 24,222 students, Chapman Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Chapman Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 21% Black, 14% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 4% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Madison County (around 41%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Chapman Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.5%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Madison County indicate median household income runs about $86,499, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Chapman Elementary School is one of 89 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students).

Nearest neighbor: Chapman Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chapman Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Chapman Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 38.6%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 70%: 556 students in 2018 compared to 167 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 53% to 21%.

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