Hueytown Intermediate School

Hueytown Intermediate School operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in Hueytown, Alabama, part of Jefferson County. Current enrollment sits at 527 students spanning grades K through 5.

Within Jefferson County, which oversees 55 schools and 35,444 students, Hueytown Intermediate School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Hueytown Intermediate School logs that 63% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school lists 22% White, 12% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Jefferson County's rate of about 52%.

After controlling for student poverty, Hueytown Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.6%, the actual is 35.9%, a residual of +1.3 points.

In the area at large, census data for Jefferson County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,388 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Hueytown Intermediate School is one of 181 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students).

Nearest neighbor: Hueytown Primary School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hueytown Intermediate School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hueytown Intermediate School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hueytown Intermediate School has decreased 44%, going from 936 students in 2018 to 527 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 44% to 22% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 in 2025.

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