Chisholm Elementary School

Chisholm Elementary School is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in Montgomery, Alabama, operated by Montgomery County, with 493 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

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

Looking at the student body, Chisholm Elementary School logs that Black students make up the majority at 58%. The remainder breaks down as 38% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. Compared to Montgomery County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Chisholm Elementary School shows 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Chisholm Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Montgomery County's rate of about 67%.

With demographic context factored in, Chisholm Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.8%, the actual is 13.6%, a residual of -11.2 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Montgomery County shows the typical household earns roughly $59,386 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. In all, Montgomery County runs 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,131 students), of which Chisholm Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Highland Gardens Elementary School, around 1.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chisholm Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Chisholm Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 39.1%.

Chisholm Elementary School operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chisholm Elementary School has shrank 3%, going from 509 students in 2018 to 493 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 14% to 38%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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