Huntsville Intermediate Sch, Huntsville AR

Original Research by School Decision on Huntsville Intermediate Sch

Huntsville Intermediate School serves students in third through fifth grade as part of the Huntsville School District, located in the small Ozark county seat of Huntsville, Arkansas. The town itself functions as an agricultural service center with a notable poultry industry presence, anchored by the Butterball turkey processing plant, which is the area’s largest employer. Immigrants from Mexico have contributed to population growth and new ethnic diversity in the community, and the school’s student body reflects that shift. The school is not a charter or magnet school, and Title I status was not reported.

State testing data from the Arkansas ATLAS assessment is available for all three grades and three subjects: math, English language arts, and science. Across the board, the share of students scoring at proficient or above falls well below what a parent may consider a strong showing. In math, proficiency rates were roughly a quarter of students in each grade, landing consistently near that level. In English language arts, rates were similarly low, with a slight uptick in third and fourth grades compared to fifth. Science results were a bit stronger in the lower grades, with about a third of third graders and more than a third of fourth graders reaching proficiency, but those numbers dipped for fifth graders. A parent should understand that these results represent a single snapshot from one assessment year and may want to talk with the school about how it is working to improve student outcomes.

Enrollment is concentrated in the intermediate grades, with a substantial majority of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, a marker of the community’s economic realities. The student body is predominantly white, with a Hispanic or Latino share that aligns with the town’s changing demographics, plus small shares of Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and multiracial students. Because the school does not serve high school grades, there is no graduation rate to report. Data on chronic absenteeism and discipline were not available, nor were figures on students with disabilities or English learners.

The housing market in the zip code shows home values that are moderately above the state benchmark, though still well below the national median, and the area has seen modest price appreciation. Rents are relatively affordable compared to mortgage costs. The town has grown at a noticeable clip in recent decades, and construction employment is significant, reflecting ongoing development in Madison County. The Huntsville School District did not show any recent major curriculum changes, bond measures, or other parent-facing shifts in the available public records. A parent choosing this school will find a small, rural intermediate setting serving a community with real economic pressures and state test results that merit a close conversation with the school’s leadership about academic support and improvement efforts.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 326%

School 26% · District 25% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 11 pts below state median

Grade 424%

School 24% · District 25%

▼ 15 pts below state median

Grade 524%

School 24% · District 26% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 330%

School 30% · District 29% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 3 pts below state median

Grade 430%

School 30% · District 29% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 7 pts below state median

Grade 525%

School 25% · District 25%

▼ 8 pts below state median

Science

Grade 333%

School 33% · District 31% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 4 pts below state median

Grade 435%

School 35% · District 35%

▼ 1 pts below state median

Grade 529%

School 29% · District 28% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 4 pts below state median

This schoolHUNTSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, 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-income26%Higher-income42%16 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income21%Higher-income30%9 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income29%Higher-income52%23 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income19%Higher-income34%15 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income18%Higher-income28%10 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income32%Higher-income44%12 pp gap