Monte Sano Elementary School

Located at 1107 Monte Sano Blvd SE, in Huntsville, Alabama, Monte Sano Elementary School is a small elementary campus that serves 263 students (grades pre-K through 6), run under Huntsville City. Enrollment runs roughly 45% smaller than the state mean of about 480.

Across the 44 schools in Huntsville City (24,222 students total), Monte Sano Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Monte Sano Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). Beyond that, the school shows 8% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the income-and-resources front, Monte Sano Elementary School lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 10% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Madison County (around 41%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Monte Sano Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.7%, the actual is 80.8%, a residual of +4.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Madison County shows median household earnings sit near $86,499, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Madison County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), of which Monte Sano Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Chapman Middle School, roughly 1.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Monte Sano Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.1%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Monte Sano Elementary School's enrollment has increased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 243 (now 263). Black enrollment moved from 13% to 8% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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