Summary:
Zip code 36022 is home to a single middle school, Holtville Middle School, which serves grades 5 through 8 and enrolls 632 students in the Deatsville, Alabama area.
Holtville Middle School is a consistently high-performing school within the Elmore County district, maintaining a 4-star rating and ranking in the top 20% of Alabama middle schools for three consecutive years. Its strongest subject is English Language Arts, where proficiency rates exceed state averages by 4 to 16 percentage points across all grade levels. The school also shines in 8th-grade science, with a 70.7% proficiency rate compared to the state average of 54.12%. Perhaps the most notable finding is the dramatic improvement in 7th-grade mathematics, which jumped from 28.99% proficiency in 2024-2025 to 51.06% in 2025-2026—a remarkable 22-point increase while the district average actually declined. This suggests a targeted intervention or curriculum change that could offer valuable lessons for other grades.
While math performance varies by grade level, with 7th grade significantly outpacing other grades in 2025-2026, the school consistently outperforms both its district and state averages in most subjects. With 42.56% of students receiving free/reduced lunch, the school serves a moderately diverse socioeconomic population yet still achieves above-average results. One area for attention is chronic absenteeism at 13.2%, slightly above the district (12.1%) and state (12.0%) averages. The student-teacher ratio is 18.5:1, and per-student spending is $8,078. Overall, Holtville Middle School offers a stable, high-quality educational option with particular strengths in English and science, and its recent math improvement suggests a positive trajectory worth watching.
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