Ardmore High School, Ardmore AL - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Ardmore High School

Ardmore High School serves students from sixth through twelfth grade in the small, border-town community of Ardmore, Alabama, which sits directly on the state line with its Tennessee counterpart. The school is part of the Limestone County School District, a system experiencing steady enrollment growth that has prompted construction and renovation projects across the district, including work at Ardmore High itself. The district recently opened a new Career Technical Education Center offering pathways in welding, healthcare sciences, and information technology, and adopted a new K-3 reading curriculum. A local property tax renewal passed in 2024 continues to fund operations and staffing. For families considering this school, the district's growth and investment in facilities and career programs signal a proactive approach to expanding opportunities, though the impact of that growth on class sizes and school culture is worth exploring with the school directly.

The student body is predominantly White, with a Hispanic population and smaller shares of Black students and students of two or more races. About half the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a moderate level of economic diversity. The school enrolls a substantial number of students across grades six through twelve, making it a mid-sized secondary school for its grade band. The town of Ardmore itself is growing steadily, with consistent population increases over recent decades, and the school sits within the town's footprint on land donated for its founding. The community is primarily residential and rural in character, with a linear main street and Interstate 65 nearby offering access to both Nashville and Huntsville.

On state assessments, Ardmore High shows a mixed picture. In English language arts, proficiency rates for grades six through eight range from roughly half to nearly two-thirds proficient, which represents a solid showing in core literacy. Science proficiency for eighth graders sits around the midpoint, with roughly half of students meeting the state standard. Math is the weaker subject, with proficiency rates across grades six through eight notably lower, particularly in seventh grade where the rate is the lowest among the tested grades. Overall, across all tested subjects and grades, Ardmore High's combined proficiency index places it above the midpoint relative to other districts in Limestone County. That comparison set is small, but the position is a positive one. No data was available for high school state assessments, nor for a four-year graduation rate, so families with older students would want to ask the school directly about those outcomes.

The school's program offerings were not detailed in the available data, but the district's new career and technical education center may be accessible to Ardmore High students. The lack of information on course access, advanced coursework, or extracurriculars is a gap. For a school spanning both middle and high school grades, the breadth of academic pathways is a key detail a parent would want to investigate. Similarly, no data on discipline, attendance, or staffing were present in the sources reviewed, so those are open questions.

Housing in the Ardmore area is moderately valued, with home prices sitting somewhat above the state average but below the national benchmark. The town's growth suggests a stable if not rapidly appreciating market. For a family relocating to north Alabama or looking within the Huntsville-Decatur metro area, Ardmore offers a small-town setting with a school that serves the full range of secondary grades in one building.

Ardmore High School is best understood as a community-focused secondary school in a growing rural district, where literacy and science scores are a relative strength but math performance would benefit from further attention. The school's position above the midpoint among Limestone County districts offers a reasonable benchmark, though the limited comparison set means that label tells only part of the story. Families will want to follow up on high school graduation rates, career and technical options, and the specific academic and extracurricular offerings that were not captured in the available data.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

90-94%Cohort of 125 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

373 schools plotted. 7 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 640%

School 40% · District 26% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median

Grade 718%

School 18% · District 15% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 832%

School 32% · District 12% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 17 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 659%

School 59% · District 51% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Grade 744%

School 44% · District 48% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 865%

School 65% · District 50% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

Science

Grade 853%

School 53% · District 26% · ▲ 26 pts above district

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

This schoolLimestone County, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income49%Higher-income71%21 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income37%Higher-income52%15 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income52%Higher-income79%27 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income30%Higher-income52%22 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income8%Higher-income28%20 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income23%Higher-income42%19 pp gap