Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 9
Challenger Middle School, Huntsville, AL
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 425
- Teachers (FTE)
- 23.0
- Students per teacher
- 18.5
- Grades
- 6 to 9
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)428-7620
- District
- Huntsville City School District
- County
- Madison County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 010180001774
School meals
- Free lunch
- 150
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 15035.3% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 150Students 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 middle schools in Huntsville City School District
- Hampton Cove Middle School 785 students
- Williams Middle School 659 students
- Whitesburg Middle School 535 students
- Huntsville Junior High School 530 students
- Morris Middle School 397 students
- Ronald McNair 78 390 students
- Mountain Gap Middle School 366 students
- Chapman Middle School 315 students
- Academy for Academics and Arts Middle School 270 students
- Academy For Science Foreign Language Middle School 194 students
Middle schools elsewhere in Huntsville
- Monrovia Middle School Madison County Public Schools
- Riverton Intermediate 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.