MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a tight-knit elementary school in ORANGE PARK, Florida, part of CLAY. The school caters to 402 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 33% below the state mean of about 604.

Within CLAY, which oversees 50 schools and 39,116 students, MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 16% Black, 9% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Clay County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.8%; this one delivers 50.8%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Clay County put median household income runs about $87,820, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 55 public schools in Clay County (combined enrollment of about 38,806 students).

ST. JOHNS CLASSICAL ACADEMY ORANGE PARK is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 54.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 25%: 533 students in 2018 compared to 402 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 57% to 46%. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

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