Hartselle Intermediate School

Set in Hartselle, Alabama, Hartselle Intermediate School is a medium-sized middle school, run under Hartselle City. It hosts 522 students across grades 5 through 6.

Within Hartselle City, which oversees 6 schools and 3,683 students, Hartselle Intermediate School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Hartselle Intermediate School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). The remainder looks like 6% Black, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Hartselle Intermediate School reports 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Morgan County's rate of about 56%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hartselle Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.6%, the actual is 74.4%, a residual of +15.8 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Morgan County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,845, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Morgan County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,204 students), Hartselle Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hartselle Junior High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hartselle Intermediate School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 34.2%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Hartselle Intermediate School's enrollment has edged up 9% since 2018, when it stood at 478 (now 522). Class-load math has fell: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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