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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Montclair Elementary School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
590
Elementary
DISTRICT 556 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DEKALB COUNTY·NCES 130174000702
Montclair Elementary School
1680 Clairmont Pl NE, Brookhaven, GA 30329 · (678) 874-7302 · DeKalb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL590 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
493 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 74%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 40 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 94 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 100 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 97 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (92) is 7% larger than its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
28%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from DeKalb County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
13.7%
GA avg 40.1% . +0.8pp since 2021
Math
16.8%
GA avg 44.6% . +6.7pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 13.7% | 16.8% |
| 2023-24 | 15.8% | 14.2% |
| 2022-23 | 15.3% | 16.4% |
| 2021-22 | 12.9% | 10.1% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
14.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.2%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 34% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Montclair Elementary School
Montclair Elementary School's state test result (14.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montclair Elementary School this school | 590 | 83.6% | 14.5% |
| Woodward Elementary School Brookhaven | 553 | 84.6% | 20.6% |
| Park Creek Elementary School Dalton | 604 | 78.8% | 37.2% |
| Sugar Hill Elementary Gainesville | 685 | 84.8% | 28.1% |
| Blue Ridge Elementary School Dalton | 632 | 85.3% | 22.0% |
| Hightower Elementary School Doraville | 604 | 88.6% | 18.6% |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Montclair Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In DeKalb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.5% | #1,157 of 1,208 | #82 of 88 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.8% | #1,123 of 1,215 ▲ 16 | #74 of 88 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 13.7% | #1,155 of 1,215 ▼ 33 | #79 of 88 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.8pp | #471 of 1,183 | #43 of 88 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 590 | #624 of 1,324 | #30 of 97 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #168 of 1,301 | #17 of 94 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 28.2% | #1,094 of 1,301 | #57 of 94 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.6% | #667 of 1,312 | #61 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.7% | #101 of 854 | #26 of 73 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
590
-51 (-8%) vs 2020
+50% since 1990-91, when it was 393
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 12.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 590 | 52 | 11.3:1 | 84% (493) |
| 2023-24 | 633 | 41.7 | 15.2:1 | 81% (513) |
| 2022-23 | 654 | 43.7 | 15.0:1 | 100% (654) |
| 2020-21 | 641 | 52 | 12.3:1 | 99% (636) |
| 2017-18 | 828 | 62.5 | 13.3:1 | 92% (759) |
| 2015-16 | 1,177 | 75 | 15.7:1 | 95% (1,115) |
| 2010-11 | 883 | 49 | 18.0:1 | 94% (834) |
| 2000-01 | 561 | 31 | 18.1:1 | 90% (505) |
| 1990-91 | 393 | 24 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Montclair Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (828 to 590); teachers down 17% (62.5 to 52).
About Montclair Elementary School
Montclair Elementary School operates as a medium-sized elementary school in Brookhaven, Georgia. The school serves 590 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
Montclair Elementary School is in DeKalb County, a district with 92,088 students across 131 schools.
Most students at Montclair Elementary School are Hispanic: 84% of enrollment. The remaining students are 13% Black. Census figures show DeKalb County is about 11% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Montclair Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 28%.
The school has about 11.3 students per teacher and 52 full-time-equivalent teachers. That ratio is under the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 84%.
Montclair Elementary School trails its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests by 19.6 points (14.5% versus 34.2%), a bottom-10% result in Georgia on BeatsExpectations.
Montclair Elementary School is located in DeKalb County, where median household income is about $80,644, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 154 public schools in DeKalb County, with a combined enrollment of about 102,960.
The closest public school to Montclair Elementary School is Cross Keys High School, about 1.1 miles away. Within five miles of Montclair Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Montclair Elementary School is behind the 51.5% nearby average, ranking 8th of 8.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Montclair Elementary School had 641 students in 2020-21 and 590 in 2024-25, an 8% decrease.
Discussions about Montclair Elementary School may include school safety, transportation, and start times. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
DeKalb County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
765,351
Census ACS
Median income
$80,644
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
154
102,960 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in DeKalb County
- Lakeside High SchoolHigh · 2,234 students
- Dunwoody High SchoolHigh · 2,012 students
- Chamblee High SchoolHigh · 1,867 students
- Cross Keys High SchoolHigh · 1,748 students
- Sequoyah Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,713 students
- Tucker High SchoolHigh · 1,614 students
Other schools in Brookhaven
- Cross Keys High SchoolHigh · 1,748 students
- John Robert Lewis Elementary SchoolElementary · 840 students
- Montgomery Elementary SchoolElementary · 728 students
- Woodward Elementary SchoolElementary · 553 students
- DeKalb PATH Academy Charter SchoolMiddle · 369 students
Other Montclair Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 8 states are named Montclair Elementary. Montclair Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 9.
- MONTCLAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLOMAHA, NE · 641 students
- Montclair ElementaryDumfries, VA · 588 students
- Montclair Elementary SchoolGARLAND, TX · 557 students
- Montclair ElementaryOakland, CA · 547 students
- Montclair ElementaryFayetteville, NC · 433 students
Nearby schools
- Cross Keys High School1.1 mi · 1,748
- John Robert Lewis Elementary School1.1 mi · 840
- Woodward Elementary School1.1 mi · 553
- Margaret Harris Comprehensive School1.3 mi · 76
- Sagamore Hills Elementary School1.4 mi · 428
- Kittredge Magnet School1.5 mi · 552
Frequently asked questions
About Montclair Elementary SchoolHow large is Montclair Elementary School?
Montclair Elementary School enrolls approximately 590 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Montclair Elementary School serve?
Montclair Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Montclair Elementary School?
Approximately 11.3:1 students per teacher at Montclair Elementary School.
How diverse is Montclair Elementary School?
Montclair Elementary School reports a student body of 2% White, 84% Hispanic, 13% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Montclair Elementary School public or private?
Montclair Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by DeKalb County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.