Monta Loma Elementary

Monta Loma Elementary operates as a modestly sized primary school in Mountain View, California, run under Mountain View Whisman. Current enrollment sits at 298 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Monta Loma Elementary sits 36% below that benchmark.

Mountain View Whisman comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 4,624 students; Monta Loma Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Monta Loma Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 26% White, 13% Asian, 11% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Monta Loma Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Monta Loma Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.9%, the actual is 48.9%, a residual of -13.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Santa Clara County indicate median household earnings sit near $164,281, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Monta Loma Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Greendell, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Monta Loma Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Monta Loma Elementary's enrollment has contracted 33% since 2018, when it stood at 448 (now 298). Over the same period, the White share declined from 33% to 26%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 today.

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