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MONTGOMERY EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 36 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 28 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MONTGOMERY EL
Located at 13755 LIBERTY ST, in MONTGOMERY, Texas, MONTGOMERY EL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community that hosts 672 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within MONTGOMERY ISD. That puts it 29% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
MONTGOMERY EL is one of 12 schools operated by MONTGOMERY ISD, a district that works with 9,889 students overall.
On demographics, MONTGOMERY EL reports that White students make up the majority at 56%. Other groups include 34% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.
On the income-and-resources front, MONTGOMERY EL shows 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MONTGOMERY EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 54.4%.
Around the school, census data for Montgomery County shows median household earnings sit near $97,701, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Montgomery County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students), MONTGOMERY EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: MONTGOMERY H S, around 1.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MONTGOMERY EL at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 62.5%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Five-year trend. MONTGOMERY EL's enrollment has decreased 23% since 2018, when it stood at 877 (now 672). Hispanic enrollment moved from 20% to 34% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.
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