Hudson KEight School

As a mid-sized primary school in Birmingham, Alabama, Hudson KEight School works with 580 students from grades pre-K through 8, one of the schools within Birmingham City. That puts it 21% above the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 480 students.

Across the 43 schools in Birmingham City (20,954 students total), Hudson KEight School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Hudson KEight School reports that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder comes out to 16% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Hudson KEight School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 87% of students at Hudson KEight School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jefferson County (around 52%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hudson KEight School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.7%, the actual is 13.6%, a residual of -7.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,388 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Jefferson County runs 181 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students), of which Hudson KEight School is one.

The closest other public school is Norwood Elementary School, roughly 1.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hudson KEight School. On composite proficiency, Hudson KEight School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Hudson KEight School's enrollment has contracted 23% since 2018, when it stood at 750 (now 580). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 95% to 81%. Class-load math has widened: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 in 2025.

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