Urban Montessori Charter

Federal records list Urban Montessori Charter as an elementary school in Oakland, California. It had 343 students in 2024-25, spanning kindergarten through 8. Elementary schools in California average about 465 students, which makes this school 26% below average.

Urban Montessori Charter is run by Urban Montessori Charter District.

At Urban Montessori Charter, Hispanic students make up the biggest share, 32%. Other groups include 27% White, 19% Black, 13% multiracial, and 6% Asian. By comparison, Alameda County residents are about 23% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 76, compared with 70 nationally.

On staff are 4.3 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 79.8:1. Statewide, elementary schools in California average 22.3:1. Urban Montessori Charter has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 37%. Public schools in Alameda County average 49%.

The county, Alameda County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $129,367, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 52% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. The county's public schools total 394, with about 210,511 students.

Laurel Elementary is about 0.6 miles from Urban Montessori Charter, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. This is a charter school, which is a tuition-free public school operating under a charter.

In 2020-21, Urban Montessori Charter enrolled 395 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 343. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (79.8:1) than in 2020-21 (35.9:1).

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