MONTANA VISTA EL

Set in EL PASO, Texas, MONTANA VISTA EL is a reasonably sized elementary campus, overseen by CLINT ISD. It hosts 457 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 14 schools in CLINT ISD (10,077 students total), MONTANA VISTA EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, MONTANA VISTA EL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%); the rest looks like 3% White. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 83% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 90% of students at MONTANA VISTA EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, El Paso County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MONTANA VISTA EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.5%, the actual is 41.3%, a residual of +6.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for El Paso County shows median household income runs about $59,806, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across El Paso County's 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), MONTANA VISTA EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is EAST MONTANA MIDDLE, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MONTANA VISTA EL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. MONTANA VISTA EL's enrollment has decreased 32% since 2018, when it stood at 668 (now 457). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.