Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5
Challenger Elementary School, Huntsville, AL
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 491
- Teachers (FTE)
- 28.0
- Students per teacher
- 17.5
- Grades
- PK to 5
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 17.8. The Alabama average across schools is 17.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 13555 Chaney Thompson Rd, Huntsville, AL 35803
- Phone
- (256)428-7060
- District
- Huntsville City School District
- County
- Madison County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 010180001773
School meals
- Free lunch
- 156
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 15631.8% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 156Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Huntsville City School District
- Providence Elementary 1,152 students
- GoldsmithSchiffman Elementary 935 students
- Hampton Cove Elementary 711 students
- Blossomwood Elementary School 596 students
- Sonnie Hereford Elementary School 578 students
- Morris Elementary School 532 students
- McDonnell Elementary School 511 students
- Williams Elementary School 484 students
- Rolling Hills Elementary School 483 students
- Weatherly Heights Elementary School 472 students
- Jones Valley Elementary School 471 students
- Ridgecrest Elementary School 463 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Huntsville
- Mt Carmel Elementary School Madison County Public Schools
- Central School Madison County Public Schools
- Monrovia Elementary School Madison County Public Schools
- Riverton Elementary School Madison County Public Schools
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.