Davis Elementary School

As a mid-tier primary school in Montgomery, Alabama, Davis Elementary School hosts 533 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Montgomery County.

Across the 51 schools in Montgomery County (26,958 students total), Davis Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Davis Elementary School lists that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder looks like 17% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 59% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Davis Elementary School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Montgomery County (around 67%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Davis Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.3%, the actual is 12.5%, a residual of -7.9 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) records that 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%. In all, Montgomery County runs 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,131 students), of which Davis Elementary School is one.

Bellingrath Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Davis Elementary School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. As a public charter, Davis Elementary School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 25%: 427 students in 2018 compared to 533 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 97% to 81% across the same window.

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