Ridgecrest Elementary School

Ridgecrest Elementary School is a moderately sized primary school in Huntsville, Alabama, operated by Huntsville City. The school educates 463 students in grades pre-K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ridgecrest Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 57% of enrollment. Other groups include 27% Black, 10% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Madison County as a whole is about 7% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Ridgecrest Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Madison County (around 41%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ridgecrest Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.3%, the actual is 28.8%, a residual of -4.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Madison County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,499 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Madison County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), of which Ridgecrest Elementary School is one.

McDonnell Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ridgecrest Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ridgecrest Elementary School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 38.3%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 23%: 605 students in 2018 compared to 463 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 45% to 57%.

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