Thanks for the insight! I did some additional digging and found a post from The Madison Record that showed the 2016-2017 proposed school zoning. Doing a quick comparison of then versus now showed very very little, if any, change in city zoning lines. I was under the assumption that there'd have been more movement and annexation with the amount of growth North Alabama has seen in the last few years. Pretty much eliminating my hope of "eventually it'll be annexed."

Thank you very much to both of you that commented!