S.J. Montgomery Elementary School

S.J. Montgomery Elementary School, a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Lafayette, Louisiana, overseen by Lafayette Parish, instructs 663 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 46% above the typical public school in Louisiana, which averages around 453 students.

Lafayette Parish comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 29,396 students; S.J. Montgomery Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, S.J. Montgomery Elementary School logs that 58% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder looks like 24% Hispanic, 13% White, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Lafayette Parish runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, S.J. Montgomery Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.0%; this one delivers 23.3%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Lafayette Parish) logs that the typical household earns roughly $67,451 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. S.J. Montgomery Elementary School is one of 50 public schools in Lafayette Parish (combined enrollment of about 35,903 students).

Lafayette High School 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. On composite proficiency, S.J. Montgomery Elementary School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 52.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at S.J. Montgomery Elementary School has decreased 17%, going from 800 students in 2018 to 663 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 18% to 24% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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