DC Montessori Charter School

DC Montessori Charter School is an elementary school of reasonably sized scale in CASTLE ROCK, Colorado, operated by Douglas County School District No. Re 1, educateing 547 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Colorado's public schools average about 379 students each, so DC Montessori Charter School sits 44% above that benchmark.

Douglas County School District No. Re 1 comprises 89 schools with combined enrollment of 61,550 students; DC Montessori Charter School is among them.

On the student-mix side, DC Montessori Charter School reports that 68% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 10% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, DC Montessori Charter School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.9%; this one delivers 51.4%.

Around the school, census data for Douglas County shows median household earnings sit near $149,594, 62% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Douglas County runs 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,841 students), of which DC Montessori Charter School is one.

Nearest neighbor: American Academy, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DC Montessori Charter School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 59.4%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting. As a public charter, DC Montessori Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DC Montessori Charter School has showed little movement, going from 544 students in 2018 to 547 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 78% to 68% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.

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