Rolling Hills Elementary School

Rolling Hills Elementary School is an average-sized elementary campus in Huntsville, Alabama, run under Huntsville City. The school serves 483 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Huntsville City runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 24,222 students. Rolling Hills Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Rolling Hills Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Black, at 66% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 24% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 24% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Rolling Hills Elementary School has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. The state averages about 17.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Madison County (around 41%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rolling Hills Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.5%, the actual is 28.9%, a residual of -2.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, Madison County reports that the typical household earns roughly $86,499 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Madison County runs 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), of which Rolling Hills Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ronald McNair 78, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rolling Hills Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Rolling Hills Elementary School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Rolling Hills Elementary School's enrollment has edged up 3% since 2018, when it stood at 470 (now 483). The Black share of enrollment edged down from 77% to 66% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.

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