Montabella Elementary

Set in BLANCHARD, Michigan, Montabella Elementary is a medium-sized K-5 school, run under Montabella Community Schools. It enrolls 389 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Montabella Community Schools runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 772 students. Montabella Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Montabella Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Beyond that, the school shows 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 68% of students at Montabella Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Montcalm County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Montabella Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.1%, the actual is 29.1%, a residual of -7.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Montcalm County) records that the typical household earns roughly $67,344 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Montcalm County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,168 students), Montabella Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Montabella JuniorSenior High, around 0.1 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Montabella Elementary comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Montabella Elementary has changed only slightly, going from 391 students in 2018 to 389 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.