Montague Elementary

Montague Elementary, a low-enrollment elementary school in Santa Clara, California, part of Santa Clara Unified, hosts 254 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 45% below the state mean of about 465.

Santa Clara Unified comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 14,411 students; Montague Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Montague Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 37% Asian, 7% White, 7% multiracial, 4% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Montague Elementary has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Montague Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Montague Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.4%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Santa Clara County indicate median household income runs about $164,281, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Montague Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Don Callejon, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Montague Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Montague Elementary at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 42.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 36%: 399 students in 2018 compared to 254 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 29% to 43% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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