Montgomery El Sch

Montgomery El Sch operates as a moderately sized elementary school in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, operated by Montgomery Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 504 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Montgomery Area SD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 921 students; Montgomery El Sch is among them.

On the student-mix side, Montgomery El Sch reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). The remainder looks like 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Lycoming County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Montgomery El Sch has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Montgomery El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Lycoming County's rate of about 60%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Montgomery El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.1%, the actual is 56.0%, a residual of -0.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Lycoming County) logs that median household income runs about $63,917, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Lycoming County's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,288 students), Montgomery El Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Montgomery JSHS, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Montgomery El Sch. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Montgomery El Sch ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 58.1%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Montgomery El Sch has edged down 8%, going from 549 students in 2018 to 504 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

On this page, members of the Montgomery El Sch community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.