Flowers Elementary School

Flowers Elementary School operates as a modestly sized K-5 school in Montgomery, Alabama, one of the schools within Montgomery County. Current enrollment sits at 387 students spanning grades K through 5.

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

On the student-mix side, Flowers Elementary School records that 79% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest breaks down as 8% Hispanic, 8% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 59% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 83% of students at Flowers Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Montgomery County's rate of about 67%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Flowers Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.4%, the actual is 30.1%, a residual of +6.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Montgomery County reports that median household earnings sit near $59,386, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Montgomery County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,131 students), Flowers Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Goodwyn Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Flowers Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Flowers Elementary School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 41.0%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 9%: 426 students in 2018 compared to 387 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 31% to 8%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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