The top reported proficiency rate is 27% in Math. The lowest is 16% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Huntsville Int
Huntsville Intermediate is a grades-5-through-6 school serving about eight hundred students in a fast-growing East Texas city. It sits in a mixed-use town anchored by Sam Houston State University and a historic downtown square, located roughly seventy miles north of Houston among national-forest land.
The school's recent context matters: Huntsville ISD voters approved a major bond in 2021 that reshaped the district's facilities and grade structure. As of the 2024-25 school year, the district reorganized to Pre-K through 5 at elementary, 6 through 8 at middle school, and 9 through 12 at high school. Huntsville Intermediate itself has been closed or repurposed as a result of that realignment, making this a school in transition. The data reflect its final year of operation before the restructuring took hold.
The school serves a student body with substantial economic need. More than three-quarters of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The enrollment is racially mixed, with close to equal shares of white and Hispanic students, a sizable Black enrollment, and smaller populations from other backgrounds.
On state assessments, Huntsville Intermediate's proficiency rates are low across tested subjects and grades. In fifth-grade math, roughly a quarter of students met the proficiency standard; in sixth-grade math, that dropped to about one in four. In sixth-grade English language arts, the school reached about four in ten students proficient. Fifth-grade science proficiency stood at roughly one in six. A small group of fifth graders took the Spanish-language assessment with no students proficient; this likely reflects a small number of Spanish-dominant learners rather than a broader program. When the overall proficiency rate is compared against other districts in Walker County, the school sits above the midpoint, meaning it outperformed at least one county peer, though proficiency overall remains a soft spot.
The school's data reflect that grades 5 and 6 face particular academic challenges in math and science in this setting. A parent may want to look into what tutoring, intervention, or small-group instruction the district now provides to sixth graders as they transition into the redesigned middle-school configuration. The closure of the intermediate building means the school's future is structural change, not continued growth, and that shift is a backdrop to how the district supports students in those grades going forward.
Huntsville as a community has experienced steady growth and ongoing development, with new housing being added. The city supports its students through parks, a public library, and nearby state-park recreation. The median home value is modest relative to the national and state benchmarks, and rental housing is similarly affordable, making the area accessible to working families.
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