Williams Elementary School

Williams Elementary School, a moderately sized elementary school in Huntsville, Alabama, one of the schools within Huntsville City, enrolls 484 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within Huntsville City, which oversees 44 schools and 24,222 students, Williams Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Williams Elementary School lists that 58% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school logs 20% White, 14% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 24% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Williams Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 42.3%, a residual of -8.2 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Madison County shows median household income runs about $86,499, 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 Williams Elementary School is one.

Williams Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Williams Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Williams Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.5%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 30%: 694 students in 2018 compared to 484 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share grew from 49% to 58%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.5:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Williams Elementary School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.