Catoma Elementary School

Catoma Elementary School is one of the cozy elementary campuss in Montgomery, Alabama, run under Montgomery County, with 216 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 480 students per school, that is 55% below typical.

Montgomery County runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 26,958 students. Catoma Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Catoma Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 26% Black, 8% White. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 5% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Catoma Elementary School has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Catoma Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 77% of students at Catoma Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Montgomery County (around 67%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Catoma Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 16.4%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate the typical household earns roughly $59,386 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Catoma Elementary School is one of 60 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 31,131 students).

Nearest neighbor: King Elementary, around 3.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Catoma Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 30%: 307 students in 2018 compared to 216 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 42% to 64% over that span.

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