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Enrollment
473
Elementary
DISTRICT 448 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY·NCES 010243001039
Vaughn Road Elementary School
4407 Vaughn Rd, Montgomery, AL 36106 · (334) 260-1031 · Montgomery County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL473 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 16% of Alabama public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Alabama public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.3:1 · STATE 17.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
381 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 58%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 10 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 95 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 15% larger than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
21%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ACAP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
42.0%
AL avg 52.7%
Math
15.8%
AL avg 31.8%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53 and 32.
Source: ACAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
27.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.5%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Alabama's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Vaughn Road Elementary School
Vaughn Road Elementary School's state test result (27.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vaughn Road Elementary School this school | 473 | 80.5% | 27.7% |
| Dozier Elementary School Montgomery | 426 | 76.5% | 27.7% |
| George Washington Carver Elementary School Tuskegee | 406 | 76.6% | 35.0% |
| Oxmoor K5 Birmingham | 512 | 76.8% | 30.6% |
| Greensboro Elementary School Greensboro | 519 | 79.0% | 25.8% |
| Minor Elementary School Birmingham | 441 | 80.3% | 22.4% |
Matched among Alabama elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Vaughn Road Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Alabama | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.7% | #534 of 626 | #16 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.8% | #556 of 626 | #21 of 32 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #525 of 626 | #13 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 473 | #344 of 709 | #15 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.9:1 | #544 of 655 | #23 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 20.8% | #565 of 658 | #23 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.5% | #82 of 696 | #11 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.2% | #230 of 364 | #16 of 22 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
473
+29 (+7%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 587
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
was 17.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 473 | 25 | 18.9:1 | 81% (381) |
| 2023-24 | 477 | 27 | 17.7:1 | 78% (370) |
| 2022-23 | 494 | 24 | 20.6:1 | 79% (388) |
| 2020-21 | 444 | 25 | 17.8:1 | 79% (352) |
| 2017-18 | 515 | 30 | 17.2:1 | 79% (409) |
| 2015-16 | 533 | 29 | 18.4:1 | 58% (311) |
| 2010-11 | 614 | 34 | 18.1:1 | 66% (404) |
| 2000-01 | 448 | 31 | 14.4:1 | 66% (297) |
| 1990-91 | 587 | 33 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Vaughn Road Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (515 to 473); teachers down 17% (30 to 25).
About Vaughn Road Elementary School
Vaughn Road Elementary School, located in Montgomery, Alabama, is a mid-sized elementary school. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 473 students on the rolls.
Vaughn Road Elementary School is run by Montgomery County, whose 51 schools enroll 26,958 students.
Of every 100 students at Vaughn Road Elementary School, about 89 are Black. Smaller groups are 5% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Montgomery County is roughly 59% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 21%.
On staff are 25 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 18.9:1. Elementary schools in Alabama have an average ratio of 17.0:1. About 81% of students at Vaughn Road Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Montgomery County report 67%.
On the allk12 Grade, Vaughn Road Elementary School lands at C-, ahead of 16% of Alabama public elementary schools.
Compared with Alabama schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Vaughn Road Elementary School's results are 2.2 points above predicted: 27.7% against 25.5%.
The county, Montgomery County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $59,386 a year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Vaughn Road Elementary School, Montgomery County has 60 public schools.
Measured in a straight line, LEAD Academy Building A is about 0.7 miles from Vaughn Road Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Vaughn Road Elementary School comes in 5th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is City: Mid-size: the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 7% gain, from 444 to 473. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 17.8:1 in 2020-21 to 18.9:1 in 2024-25.
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Montgomery County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
226,718
Census ACS
Median income
$59,386
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
60
31,131 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Montgomery County
- Johnson Abernathy Graetz High SchoolHigh · 1,587 students
- Carver Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,553 students
- Percy Julian High SchoolHigh · 1,282 students
- Park Crossing High SchoolHigh · 882 students
- Brewbaker Middle SchoolMiddle · 806 students
- Carr Middle SchoolMiddle · 774 students
Other schools in Montgomery
- Johnson Abernathy Graetz High SchoolHigh · 1,587 students
- Carver Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,553 students
- Percy Julian High SchoolHigh · 1,282 students
- Park Crossing High SchoolHigh · 882 students
- Brewbaker Middle SchoolMiddle · 806 students
- Carr Middle SchoolMiddle · 774 students
Nearby schools
- LEAD Academy Building A0.7 mi · 358
- LEAD Academy Building B0.7 mi · 394
- Loveless Academic Magnet Program High School1.4 mi · 394
- Dannelly Elementary School1.5 mi · 588
- Flowers Elementary School1.7 mi · 387
- Johnson Abernathy Graetz High School1.7 mi · 1,587
Frequently asked questions
About Vaughn Road Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Vaughn Road Elementary School?
Vaughn Road Elementary School enrolls approximately 473 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Vaughn Road Elementary School serve?
Vaughn Road Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Vaughn Road Elementary School?
Approximately 18.9:1 students per teacher at Vaughn Road Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Vaughn Road Elementary School?
At Vaughn Road Elementary School, the student body is approximately 1% White, 5% Hispanic, 89% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Vaughn Road Elementary School?
Vaughn Road Elementary School is overseen by Montgomery County in Montgomery County.
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