Whitesburg Middle School

Whitesburg Middle School is one of the medium-sized intermediate schools in Huntsville, Alabama, operated by Huntsville City, with 535 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Whitesburg Middle School is one of 44 schools operated by Huntsville City, a district that enrolls 24,222 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Whitesburg Middle School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 32% Black, 25% White, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Whitesburg Middle School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Madison County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Whitesburg Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.9%, the actual is 25.2%, a residual of -16.6 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Madison County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $86,499 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Whitesburg Middle School is one of 89 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students).

Whitesburg Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Whitesburg Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Whitesburg Middle School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 37.7%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 48%: 1,022 students in 2018 compared to 535 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 21% to 36%. Class-load math has grew: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 in 2025.

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