COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI ACADEMY

COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI ACADEMY is one of the small elementary campuss in LAND O LAKES, Florida, run under PASCO, with 357 students on its rolls from grades 1 through 8. That puts it 41% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

Across the 105 schools in PASCO (86,873 students total), COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI ACADEMY shows that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 26% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 10% multiracial, 4% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 72%.

Looking at school resources, COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI ACADEMY lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 2% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Pasco County's rate of about 37%.

With demographic context factored in, COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.3%, the actual is 74.0%, a residual of -6.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Pasco County indicate median household earnings sit near $70,492, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI ACADEMY is one of 111 public schools in Pasco County (combined enrollment of about 86,873 students).

SANDERS MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI ACADEMY. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI ACADEMY ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 62.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site. As a public charter, COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI ACADEMY's enrollment has ticked up 10% since 2018, when it stood at 326 (now 357). White enrollment moved from 59% to 48% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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