Hampton Cove Elementary

As an average-sized primary school in Hampton Cove, Alabama, Hampton Cove Elementary hosts 711 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Huntsville City. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so Hampton Cove Elementary sits 48% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 44 schools in Huntsville City (24,222 students total), Hampton Cove Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hampton Cove Elementary records that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Around 7% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Madison County's rate of about 41%.

After controlling for student poverty, Hampton Cove Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 79.0%, the actual is 82.6%, a residual of +3.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Madison County shows the typical household earns roughly $86,499 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Madison County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), of which Hampton Cove Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Hampton Cove Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hampton Cove Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.8%.

Hampton Cove Elementary operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 24%: 572 students in 2018 compared to 711 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 9% to 3% across the same window.

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