Montgomery (John J.) Elementary

Set in Chula Vista, California, Montgomery (John J.) Elementary is a modestly sized primary school, operated by Chula Vista Elementary. It instructs 338 students across grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 27% below the state mean of about 465.

Chula Vista Elementary comprises 43 schools with combined enrollment of 22,235 students; Montgomery (John J.) Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Montgomery (John J.) Elementary records that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 2% White, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Montgomery (John J.) Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.4%, the actual is 33.6%, a residual of +7.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for San Diego County shows the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Montgomery (John J.) Elementary is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

MAAC Community Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Montgomery (John J.) Elementary. On composite proficiency, Montgomery (John J.) Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.4%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Montgomery (John J.) Elementary's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 340 (now 338).

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