Hampton Cove Middle School

Located at 261 Old 431 Highway, in Hampton Cove, Alabama, Hampton Cove Middle School is a big middle-grades school that educates 785 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Huntsville City. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 508 students each, so Hampton Cove Middle School sits 55% bigger than that benchmark.

Huntsville City runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 24,222 students. Hampton Cove Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Hampton Cove Middle School lists that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, Madison County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Hampton Cove Middle School records 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.4:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 11% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Madison County's rate of about 41%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hampton Cove Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.0%, the actual is 76.8%, a residual of +0.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Madison County put the typical household earns roughly $86,499 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Madison County's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), Hampton Cove Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hampton Cove Elementary, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Hampton Cove Middle School. On composite proficiency, Hampton Cove Middle School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 37.9%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Hampton Cove Middle School's enrollment has rose 18% since 2018, when it stood at 665 (now 785). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 22.4:1 today.

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