Vaughn Road Elementary School

Vaughn Road Elementary School, a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Montgomery, Alabama, one of the schools within Montgomery County, enrolls 473 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Vaughn Road Elementary School is one of 51 schools operated by Montgomery County, a district that teaches 26,958 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Vaughn Road Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (89%). The remainder reads as 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 59% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Vaughn Road Elementary School reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.9:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Vaughn Road Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.7%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) shows that median household income runs about $59,386, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Vaughn Road Elementary School is one of 60 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 31,131 students).

LEAD Academy Building B is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Vaughn Road Elementary School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.4%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Vaughn Road Elementary School has declined 8%, going from 515 students in 2018 to 473 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 93% to 89%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

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