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Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at Morris Elementary School?
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Enrollment
532
Elementary
DISTRICT 475 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HUNTSVILLE CITY·NCES 010180001529
Morris Elementary School
4801 Bob Wallace Ave SW, Huntsville, AL 35805 · (256) 428-7340 · Madison County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL532 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 6% of Alabama public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Alabama public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.0:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
379 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 58%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 31 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 96 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (96) is 33% larger than its 5th grade class (72).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
39.7%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
17.1%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
Source: ACAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
25.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.2%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Alabama's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Morris Elementary School
Morris Elementary School's state test result (25.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morris Elementary School this school | 532 | 71.2% | 25.3% |
| Kermit Johnson School Pinson | 646 | 69.8% | 36.8% |
| Flatwoods Elementary School Northport | 459 | 68.6% | 36.5% |
| Washington K8 Birmingham | 617 | 74.6% | 33.3% |
| W O Lance Elementary Lanett | 564 | 64.7% | 18.7% |
| Rolling Hills Elementary School Huntsville | 483 | 72.3% | 28.9% |
Matched among Alabama elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Morris Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Madison County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.3% | #563 of 626 | #43 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.1% | #544 of 626 | #42 of 48 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.7% | #551 of 626 | #42 of 48 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 532 | #254 of 709 | #25 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.0:1 | #461 of 655 | #37 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.7% | #99 of 658 | #17 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.2% | #201 of 696 | #7 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -47.5% | #7 of 364 | #2 of 29 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
532
+18 (+4%) vs 2020
+51% since 1990-91, when it was 353
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
was 15.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 532 | 29.5 | 18.0:1 | 71% (379) |
| 2023-24 | 527 | 28.3 | 18.6:1 | 90% (476) |
| 2022-23 | 515 | 29 | 17.8:1 | 90% (465) |
| 2020-21 | 514 | 34 | 15.1:1 | 93% (477) |
| 2017-18 | 1,014 | 57.6 | 17.6:1 | 93% (939) |
| 2015-16 | 481 | 31 | 15.5:1 | 57% (275) |
| 2010-11 | 564 | 41 | 13.8:1 | 91% (512) |
| 2000-01 | 362 | 27 | 13.4:1 | 66% (238) |
| 1990-91 | 353 | 27 | 13.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Morris Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 48% (1,014 to 532); teachers down 49% (57.6 to 29.5).
About Morris Elementary School
In Huntsville, Alabama, part of Madison County, Morris Elementary School is an elementary school. It reports enrollment of 532 students in pre-K through 5.
The Huntsville City system has 44 schools and 24,222 students.
The student body at Morris Elementary School has no majority group. Black students lead at 49%. The remaining shares are 32% Hispanic, 10% White, and 7% multiracial. Madison County as a whole is about 24% Black, so the school's share is higher. A diversity index of 64% means there is a 64% chance two randomly chosen students at Morris Elementary School are from different groups.
For every teacher at Morris Elementary School, there are about 18.0 students; the school has 29.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Alabama is 17.0:1, so this school has more students per teacher. There are 379 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 71% of enrollment. For comparison, public schools in Madison County average 41%.
Morris Elementary School earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 6% of Alabama public elementary schools.
Morris Elementary School is 6.9 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (25.3% versus 32.2%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Alabama.
The school's county is Madison County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $86,499, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. There are 89 public schools in the county, enrolling about 55,800, Morris Elementary School among them.
Morris Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Morris Middle School, less than a tenth of a mile away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Morris Elementary School ranks 6th of 9 nearby schools, at 25.3% versus a 31.0% average.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Mid-size.
Enrollment rose by 4% across 4 years, from 514 in 2020-21 to 532 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 15.1:1 to 18.0:1.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at Morris Elementary School. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Madison County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
405,718
Census ACS
Median income
$86,499
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
89
55,800 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Huntsville City
- Virgil Grissom High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Huntsville High SchoolHigh · 1,807 students
- Providence ElementaryElementary · 1,152 students
- GoldsmithSchiffman ElementaryElementary · 935 students
- Columbia High SchoolHigh · 916 students
- Lee High SchoolHigh · 877 students
Other schools in Huntsville
- Virgil Grissom High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Huntsville High SchoolHigh · 1,807 students
- Providence ElementaryElementary · 1,152 students
- Monrovia Middle SchoolMiddle · 988 students
- Columbia High SchoolHigh · 916 students
- Lee High SchoolHigh · 877 students
Other Morris Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 4 states are named Morris Elementary. Morris Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 6.
- Morris Elementary SchoolMontgomery, AL · 414 students
- Morris ElementaryBondurant, IA · 601 students
- Morris Elementary SchoolDes Moines, IA · 519 students
- Morris Elementary SchoolMorris, OK · 442 students
- Morris ElementaryMcKinleyville, CA · 255 students
Nearby schools
- Morris Middle School0.0 mi · 397
- Ridgecrest Elementary School1.0 mi · 463
- McDonnell Elementary School1.9 mi · 511
- Sonnie Hereford Elementary School2.1 mi · 578
- Huntsville High School2.9 mi · 1,807
- Highlands Elementary School3.2 mi · 370
Frequently asked questions
About Morris Elementary SchoolHow large is Morris Elementary School?
Morris Elementary School enrolls approximately 532 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Morris Elementary School serve?
Morris Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Morris Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Morris Elementary School is approximately 18.0:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Morris Elementary School?
At Morris Elementary School, the student body is approximately 10% White, 32% Hispanic, 49% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Morris Elementary School public or private?
Morris Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Huntsville City.
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