Huffman Academy

Huffman Academy operates as a well-populated elementary campus in Birmingham, Alabama, operated by Birmingham City. Current enrollment sits at 779 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so Huffman Academy sits 62% larger than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, Huffman Academy shows that 87% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest comes out to 11% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Huffman Academy higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Jefferson County (around 52%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Huffman Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.5%, the actual is 21.8%, a residual of -4.7 points.

Around the school, census data for Jefferson County shows median household income runs about $66,388, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jefferson County runs 181 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students), of which Huffman Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Huffman High SchoolMagnet, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Huffman Academy comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.4%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 6%: 825 students in 2018 compared to 779 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 today.

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