Montview Elementary School

As a compact elementary school in Huntsville, Alabama, Montview Elementary School teaches 213 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Huntsville City. By comparison, Alabama's public schools average about 480 students each, so Montview Elementary School sits 56% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Huntsville City, which oversees 44 schools and 24,222 students, Montview Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Montview Elementary School reports that 67% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school reports 19% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Madison County as a whole is about 24% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Montview Elementary School has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 74% of students at Montview Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Madison County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Montview Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.1%, the actual is 28.4%, a residual of -1.7 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Madison County shows median household earnings sit near $86,499, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Madison County's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), Montview Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Academy For Science Foreign Language is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Montview Elementary School at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 38.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Montview Elementary School has edged down 12%, going from 241 students in 2018 to 213 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 79% to 67% over that span.

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