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HUNTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
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Test scores
ATLAS 2023-24 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level. The Arkansas average is about 34 of 100.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for Arkansas 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 Arkansas's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HUNTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
HUNTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is a senior high of medium-sized scale in HUNTSVILLE, Arkansas, part of HUNTSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, teacheing 581 students in grades 9 through 12.
HUNTSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,287 students. HUNTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
Demographically, HUNTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). The remainder breaks down as 11% Hispanic, 3% Pacific Islander, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, On paper, HUNTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL has 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.8:1, putting HUNTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 64% of students at HUNTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Madison County's rate of about 73%.
With demographic context factored in, HUNTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.3%, the actual is 29.1%, a residual of -6.2 points.
Across the wider county, Madison County reports that the typical household earns roughly $56,798 per year, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Madison County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,501 students), HUNTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: HUNTSVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, around 0.6 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HUNTSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.2%.
The campus sits in a low-density setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 8%: 633 students in 2018 compared to 581 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 7.3:1 in 2025.
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