Mountain Gap Elementary School

Located at 821 Mountain Gap Road SE, in Huntsville, Alabama, Mountain Gap Elementary School is a modestly sized primary school that instructs 341 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Huntsville City. Enrollment runs roughly 29% leaner than the state mean of about 480.

Huntsville City comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 24,222 students; Mountain Gap Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Mountain Gap Elementary School records that 66% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 13% Hispanic, 12% Black, 7% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Mountain Gap Elementary School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.2:1. The state averages about 17.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mountain Gap Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 61.1%; this one delivers 79.7%, a residual of +18.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Madison County) records that the typical household earns roughly $86,499 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Madison County's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), Mountain Gap Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mountain Gap Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mountain Gap Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 37.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

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