MAY SANDS MONTESSORI SCHOOL

Located at 1400 UNITED ST STE 110, in KEY WEST, Florida, MAY SANDS MONTESSORI SCHOOL is a rural-scale elementary school that hosts 90 students (grades pre-K through 8), part of MONROE. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so MAY SANDS MONTESSORI SCHOOL sits 85% below that benchmark.

MONROE comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 8,928 students; MAY SANDS MONTESSORI SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, MAY SANDS MONTESSORI SCHOOL records that 63% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, MAY SANDS MONTESSORI SCHOOL has 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 90.0:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Monroe County's rate of about 47%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MAY SANDS MONTESSORI SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.4%; this one delivers 59.1%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Monroe County) records that the typical household earns roughly $87,738 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Monroe County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,928 students), of which MAY SANDS MONTESSORI SCHOOL is one.

HORACE O'BRYANT SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MAY SANDS MONTESSORI SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area. MAY SANDS MONTESSORI SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MAY SANDS MONTESSORI SCHOOL has contracted 36%, going from 140 students in 2018 to 90 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 14% to 22% over that span.

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