Enrollment
396
Elementary
DISTRICT 475 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HUNTSVILLE CITY·NCES 010180000621
Roger B Chaffee Elementary School
7900 Whittier Road SW, Huntsville, AL 35802 · (256) 428-7040 · Madison County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL396 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 38% of Alabama public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.0:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
182 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 18 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (72).
Student demographics
67%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
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ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
64.9%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
43.0%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 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
50.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.6%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 Roger B Chaffee Elementary School
Roger B Chaffee Elementary School's state test result (50.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roger B Chaffee Elementary School this school | 396 | 46.0% | 50.6% |
| Gwin Elementary School Hoover | 508 | 46.3% | 63.4% |
| T R Simmons Elementary School Jasper | 507 | 51.7% | N/A |
| Green Valley Elementary School Hoover | 501 | 51.9% | 63.5% |
| Memorial Park Elementary School Jasper | 483 | 54.7% | 68.6% |
| Concord Elementary School Bessemer | 400 | 56.5% | 42.8% |
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 Roger B Chaffee Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Madison County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.6% | #295 of 626 | #30 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #274 of 626 | #27 of 48 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.9% | #294 of 626 | #29 of 48 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 396 | #449 of 709 | #39 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #203 of 655 | #14 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.8% | #56 of 658 | #7 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.0% | #524 of 696 | #24 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.9% | #266 of 364 | #23 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
396
+22 (+6%) vs 2020
+2% since 1990-91, when it was 388
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 396 | 24.8 | 16.0:1 | 46% (182) |
| 2023-24 | 392 | 25.3 | 15.5:1 | 51% (201) |
| 2022-23 | 399 | 20 | 19.9:1 | 50% (201) |
| 2020-21 | 374 | 24 | 15.6:1 | 52% (195) |
| 2017-18 | 421 | 24.5 | 17.2:1 | 50% (212) |
| 2015-16 | 432 | 24 | 18.0:1 | 50% (218) |
| 2010-11 | 329 | 21 | 15.7:1 | 29% (94) |
| 2000-01 | 313 | 22 | 14.2:1 | 14% (44) |
| 1990-91 | 388 | 22 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Roger B Chaffee Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (421 to 396); teachers up 1% (24.5 to 24.8).
About Roger B Chaffee Elementary School
Roger B Chaffee Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school in Huntsville, Alabama. It covers pre-K through 5, with a total enrollment of 396 students.
Huntsville City enrolls 24,222 students, and its 44 schools include Roger B Chaffee Elementary School.
White students are the largest group at Roger B Chaffee Elementary School, with 45% of enrollment. Next come 31% Hispanic, 17% Black, and 6% multiracial. The county population is about 63% White. Roger B Chaffee Elementary School has a diversity index of 67%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
With 24.8 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Roger B Chaffee Elementary School was 16.0:1. The 17.0:1 average for elementary schools in Alabama is higher than this school's figure. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 46%.
allk12 grades Roger B Chaffee Elementary School a C+. The grade compares the school only with Alabama public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On BeatsExpectations, Roger B Chaffee Elementary School is within a point of its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Alabama schools.
Census estimates describe Madison County this way: median household income is about $86,499, about 46% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 89 public schools in Madison County, with a combined enrollment of about 55,800.
The shortest distance from Roger B Chaffee Elementary School to another public school is about 0.9 miles, to Virgil Grissom High School. The five-mile area around Roger B Chaffee Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Roger B Chaffee Elementary School comes in 6th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, according to its NCES locale (City: Mid-size).
The number of students climbed from 374 to 396 over 4 years.
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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
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- 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
- Virgil Grissom High School0.9 mi · 1,847
- Whitesburg Elementary School1.3 mi · 379
- Whitesburg Middle School1.3 mi · 535
- Weatherly Heights Elementary School1.7 mi · 472
- Mountain Gap Elementary School2.6 mi · 341
- Mountain Gap Middle School2.6 mi · 366
Frequently asked questions
About Roger B Chaffee Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Roger B Chaffee Elementary School?
Roger B Chaffee Elementary School enrolls approximately 396 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Roger B Chaffee Elementary School serve?
Roger B Chaffee Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Roger B Chaffee Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Roger B Chaffee Elementary School is approximately 16.0:1 (25 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Roger B Chaffee Elementary School?
Student demographics at Roger B Chaffee Elementary School are roughly 45% White, 31% Hispanic, 17% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Roger B Chaffee Elementary School public or private?
Roger B Chaffee Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Huntsville City.
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