Monrovia Elementary School

Monrovia Elementary School operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in Huntsville, Alabama, operated by Madison County. Current enrollment sits at 600 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 25% larger than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 480 students.

Madison County runs 28 schools in total, collectively educating 20,691 students. Monrovia Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Monrovia Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 39% Black, 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Madison County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Monrovia Elementary School logs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Madison County (around 41%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Monrovia Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 74.5%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Madison County) logs that median household income runs about $86,499, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Madison County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), of which Monrovia Elementary School is one.

Monrovia Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Monrovia Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Monrovia Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 36.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 20%: 502 students in 2018 compared to 600 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 53% to 43% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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