MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 820 MASSACHUSETTS AVE, in PENSACOLA, Florida, MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a tight-knit elementary school that enrolls 363 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by ESCAMBIA. That puts it 40% below the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

Within ESCAMBIA, which oversees 66 schools and 36,795 students, MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that Black students make up the majority at 79%. Beyond that, the school reports 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 84% of students at MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Escambia County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.2%, the actual is 39.8%, a residual of +0.6 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Escambia County put the typical household earns roughly $67,500 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Escambia County's 71 public schools (combined enrollment of about 37,056 students), MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BRENTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 34.5%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged up 7%, going from 340 students in 2018 to 363 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 93% to 79%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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