Morningview Elementary School

Set in Montgomery, Alabama, Morningview Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary-level community, overseen by Montgomery County. It hosts 434 students across grades K through 5.

Within Montgomery County, which oversees 51 schools and 26,958 students, Morningview Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Morningview Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 61% of enrollment. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 5% White, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Morningview Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.9%, the actual is 19.8%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Zooming out to the 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 roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Morningview Elementary School is one of 60 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 31,131 students).

The closest other public school is Capitol Heights Middle School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Morningview Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 38.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 23%: 562 students in 2018 compared to 434 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 15% to 5%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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