City Garden Montessori Eaec

Size

Of the 2 elementary schools in City Garden Montessori, City Garden Montessori Eaec is the largest, with 69.4% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 0.8 miles away and have a median of 221 students, so City Garden Montessori Eaec is larger than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 3 with 79 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 28, against an average of 51 per grade. This year grade 8 has 64% fewer students than grade 1 (28 against 78). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 44% of enrollment, about the same share as across City Garden Montessori (43%). White students are next, at 35%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

45.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 47.9% across City Garden Montessori and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 24.7% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

City Garden Montessori Eaec has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.1 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 409 students would have about 33.3 teachers, so City Garden Montessori Eaec has 4.3 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri elementary schools (12.3).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is City Garden Montessori Ecec, 0.1 miles away in the same district. There are 69 elementary schools within 5 miles and 135 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.