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Alumni: what's one memory from Mountain Gap Middle School that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
366
Middle
DISTRICT 442 · STATE 508
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HUNTSVILLE CITY·NCES 010180001530
Mountain Gap Middle School
821 Mountain Gap Road SE, Huntsville, AL 35803 · (256) 428-7720 · Madison County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL366 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% of Alabama public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.9:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
123 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 115 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 126 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 125 | 34% |
Student demographics
55%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
74.4%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
45.8%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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
62.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.5%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 Mountain Gap Middle School
Mountain Gap Middle School's state test result (62.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Gap Middle School this school | 366 | 33.6% | 62.3% |
| Challenger Middle School Huntsville | 425 | 35.3% | 57.6% |
| Cullman Middle School Cullman | 491 | 31.2% | 69.0% |
| Kate Duncan Smith DAR Middle Grant | 376 | 35.1% | 42.9% |
| Redland Middle School Wetumpka | 579 | 36.3% | 57.8% |
| W J Carroll Intermediate School Daphne | 414 | 43.2% | 60.0% |
Matched among Alabama middle 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 Mountain Gap Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Madison County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.3% | #40 of 260 | #5 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.8% | #48 of 260 | #6 of 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.4% | #45 of 260 | #6 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 366 | #180 of 265 | #16 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #52 of 244 | #6 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.7% | #91 of 246 | #15 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.6% | #234 of 264 | #13 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -54.3% | #3 of 151 | #1 of 6 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
366
-101 (-22%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 515
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 18.0:1
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 | 366 | 23 | 15.9:1 | 34% (123) |
| 2023-24 | 392 | 25 | 15.7:1 | 46% (179) |
| 2022-23 | 419 | 24 | 17.5:1 | 44% (185) |
| 2020-21 | 467 | 26 | 18.0:1 | 34% (159) |
| 2017-18 | 800 | 48.8 | 16.4:1 | 30% (237) |
| 2015-16 | 785 | 45 | 17.4:1 | 33% (262) |
| 2010-11 | 408 | 37 | 11.0:1 | 21% (85) |
| 2000-01 | 433 | 32 | 13.5:1 | 4% (16) |
| 1990-91 | 515 | 33 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mountain Gap Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 54% (800 to 366); teachers down 53% (48.8 to 23).
About Mountain Gap Middle School
Mountain Gap Middle School operates as a low-enrollment middle school in Huntsville, Alabama. School enrollment was 366 students in 2024-25, in grades 6 through 8. For comparison, middle schools in Alabama average about 508 students.
Mountain Gap Middle School falls under Huntsville City, which has 44 schools enrolling 24,222 students.
White students are the majority at Mountain Gap Middle School, with 64% of enrollment. After that, the student body is 17% Black, 10% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. That is close to the 63% White share among all Madison County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 55% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school reported 23 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 15.9:1. That is 2.0 students per teacher below the 17.9:1 average for middle schools in Alabama. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 34%.
Mountain Gap Middle School is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 79% of Alabama public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Mountain Gap Middle School is 2.8 points above its prediction. Actual: 62.3%. Predicted: 59.5%.
Federal survey data for Madison County show that the median household income is $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 Madison County, enrolling about 55,800 students in all.
Mountain Gap Elementary School is located less than a tenth of a mile from Mountain Gap Middle School. The five-mile area around Mountain Gap Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 62.3% average proficiency ranks 3rd among 9 nearby schools.
NCES assigns Mountain Gap Middle School the locale City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment dropped 22% from its 2020-21 level of 467. The ratio was 18.0:1 in 2020-21 and 15.9:1 in 2024-25.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Mountain Gap Middle School covering things like sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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
Nearby schools
- Mountain Gap Elementary School0.0 mi · 341
- Challenger Elementary School1.0 mi · 491
- Challenger Middle School1.0 mi · 425
- Weatherly Heights Elementary School1.3 mi · 472
- Virgil Grissom High School2.0 mi · 1,847
- Farley Elementary School2.2 mi · 334
Frequently asked questions
About Mountain Gap Middle SchoolHow many students attend Mountain Gap Middle School?
Mountain Gap Middle School enrolls approximately 366 students in grades 06-08.
Is Mountain Gap Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mountain Gap Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Mountain Gap Middle School have?
Mountain Gap Middle School employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Mountain Gap Middle School?
Student demographics at Mountain Gap Middle School are roughly 64% White, 10% Hispanic, 17% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Mountain Gap Middle School in?
Mountain Gap Middle School is part of Huntsville City.
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