Highland Avenue Elementary School

Set in Montgomery, Alabama, Highland Avenue Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary campus, operated by Montgomery County. It hosts 453 students across grades pre-K through 5.

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

In terms of who attends, Highland Avenue Elementary School logs that 60% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 37% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Highland Avenue Elementary School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.8:1. The state averages about 17.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Highland Avenue Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.7%, the actual is 14.3%, a residual of -12.4 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household earnings sit near $59,386, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Montgomery County's 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,131 students), Highland Avenue Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Floyd Middle School, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Highland Avenue Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Highland Avenue Elementary School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 38.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Highland Avenue Elementary School has expanded 3%, going from 438 students in 2018 to 453 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 85% to 60% over that span.

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