Monrovia Elementary School, Huntsville AL

Original Research by School Decision on Monrovia Elementary School

Monrovia Elementary School serves students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of the Madison County school district. This is a regular public school, not a charter school, and sits in the western portion of Huntsville, an area shaped by the city’s rapid expansion into Limestone County. Huntsville itself is a fast-growing technology and aerospace hub, anchored by Redstone Arsenal, Cummings Research Park, and major employers like NASA, the Army, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Mazda Toyota Manufacturing. The city has added population significantly in recent years, and residential development has pushed outward, making schools like Monrovia part of a growing suburban corridor.

The school’s student body reflects a mix of backgrounds. White students make up the largest share, followed by a substantial Black student population and smaller groups of Hispanic, two-or-more-races, Asian, and American Indian or Alaska Native students. About a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a measure that places the school in a moderate range compared to many Alabama elementary schools.

The school’s academic results on the state assessment stand out. In reading and language arts, proficiency rates are high across grades three through five, with third graders posting a particularly strong result. Math proficiency rates are solid, declining somewhat as grade levels rise but remaining above the midpoint. Science data is available for fourth grade only and shows a result that parents may want to compare with their own expectations. When all tested subjects and grades are combined into a single index, Monrovia Elementary’s overall performance ranks in the top quarter among schools in Madison County, a clear strength. Only a single year of data was available, so trends over time could not be assessed.

The school serves a pre-K-through-fifth-grade span, so there is no graduation rate to report. Civil rights data such as special education and English learner counts were not available in the profile, and information on discipline, staffing, and attendance was also missing. A parent interested in those dimensions would need to reach out to the school or district directly.

Housing in the immediate area carries a cost that is above the statewide and national medians, a reflection of the broader Huntsville market. Rents are also elevated. The economic context shows a low unemployment rate nationally, and Huntsville’s defense and aerospace economy has historically been a stabilizing force. For families considering a move, the home prices in this pocket of the county may be a factor.

The district brief turned up no parent-relevant changes to report, which is common for a growing county system where incremental adjustments may not make headlines. The Madison County district overall serves a large geographic area that includes both suburban and rural communities, so Monrovia’s experience may differ from schools in the more densely populated parts of the district.

In short, Monrovia Elementary is a suburban school delivering strong academic outcomes, particularly in reading, and anchored in a high-growth metro area with a stable employment base. Its student body is racially and economically mixed, and its performance places it among the stronger elementary schools in the county. The missing data on special populations and school climate means that some of the finer-grained questions about student support are left unanswered, but the core academic picture is a positive one.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 377%

School 77% · District 53% · ▲ 24 pts above district

▲ 34 pts above state median · ▲ 29 pts above county median

Grade 469%

School 69% · District 54% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▲ 32 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

Grade 563%

School 63% · District 49% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 23 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 389%

School 89% · District 74% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 23 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 484%

School 84% · District 70% · ▲ 13 pts above district

▲ 25 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 579%

School 79% · District 74% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Science

Grade 466%

School 66% · District 54% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

This schoolMadison 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 3Lower-income81%Higher-income94%14 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income62%Higher-income86%24 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income61%Higher-income89%27 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income41%Higher-income73%32 pp gap