MI ESCUELA MONTESSORI

As a modestly sized K-5 school in LAKELAND, Florida, MI ESCUELA MONTESSORI serves 275 students from grades pre-K through 7, run under POLK. That puts it 54% below the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

POLK runs 163 schools in total, collectively educating 116,552 students. MI ESCUELA MONTESSORI is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, MI ESCUELA MONTESSORI lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 58%; the rest comes out to 32% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Polk County's rate of about 65%.

With demographic context factored in, MI ESCUELA MONTESSORI tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.1%.

Around the school, Polk County reports that median household earnings sit near $65,978, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Polk County runs 172 public schools (combined enrollment of about 117,004 students), of which MI ESCUELA MONTESSORI is one.

Nearest neighbor: SPESSARD L HOLLAND ELEMENTARY, around 0.4 miles off. 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), MI ESCUELA MONTESSORI ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 57.3%.

MI ESCUELA MONTESSORI operates from a commuter-belt location. MI ESCUELA MONTESSORI is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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