MONTGOMERY CITY ELEM.

MONTGOMERY CITY ELEM. is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in MONTGOMERY CITY, Missouri, one of the schools within MONTGOMERY CO. R-II, instructing 326 students in grades pre-K through 5.

MONTGOMERY CO. R-II comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,075 students; MONTGOMERY CITY ELEM. is among them.

On demographics, MONTGOMERY CITY ELEM. shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting MONTGOMERY CITY ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, MONTGOMERY CITY ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.3%; this one delivers 45.6%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household earnings sit near $65,500, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Montgomery County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,336 students), MONTGOMERY CITY ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

MONTGOMERY CO. MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MONTGOMERY CITY ELEM. ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MONTGOMERY CITY ELEM. has fell 14%, going from 381 students in 2018 to 326 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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