Holliday Montessori

Size

Holliday Montessori is the 13th largest of Kansas City 33 School District's 21 elementary schools; its 360 students are 2.4% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.1 miles away and have a median of 427 students, so Holliday Montessori is close to their typical size.

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 pre-K with 144 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 19, against an average of 45 per grade. This year grade 6 has 63% fewer students than kindergarten (19 against 52). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 144 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 66.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across Kansas City 33 (46.2%). White students are next, at 18.6%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across Kansas City 33 and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 35.6% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

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

Teachers

Holliday Montessori has 24.13 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.9 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 360 students would have about 29.3 teachers, so Holliday Montessori has 5.2 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 rural, fringe, which means it is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town. The nearest other elementary school is B. Banneker Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in the same district. There are 27 elementary schools within 5 miles and 87 within 10 miles.

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