Enrollment
216
Elementary
DISTRICT 607 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAVANNAH-CHATHAM COUNTY·NCES 130102003772
Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School
301 Buckhalter Rd, Savannah, GA 31405 · (912) 395-4070 · Chatham County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL216 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 3% of Georgia public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
13 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
158 students
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 74%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 40 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 39 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 32 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 23 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 27 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (40) is 48% larger than its 5th grade class (27).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
18.5%
GA avg 40.1% . -6.5pp since 2021
Math
13.6%
GA avg 44.6% . +0.1pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.5% | 13.6% |
| 2023-24 | 26.7% | 20.0% |
| 2022-23 | 16.3% | 15.0% |
| 2021-22 | 25.0% | 13.5% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
19.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.5%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 40% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School
Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School's state test result (19.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School this school | 216 | 73.1% | 19.3% |
| McCall Primary School Acworth | 265 | 71.7% | N/A |
| Glanton Elementary Grantville | 271 | 69.7% | 35.2% |
| Bloomingdale Elementary School Savannah | 350 | 76.0% | 37.3% |
| Ruth Hill Elementary School Newnan | 346 | 79.2% | 37.7% |
| Pooler Elementary School Pooler | 340 | 85.6% | 28.7% |
Matched among Georgia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Chatham County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.3% | #1,069 of 1,208 | #27 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.6% | #1,163 of 1,215 ▼ 123 | #32 of 33 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.5% | #1,054 of 1,215 ▼ 182 | #27 of 33 ▼ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.2pp | #216 of 1,183 | #5 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 216 | #1,294 of 1,324 | #34 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #1,277 of 1,301 | #34 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.6% | #102 of 1,301 | #2 of 34 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.1% | #796 of 1,312 | #25 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.9% | #71 of 854 | #2 of 22 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
216
-31 (-13%) vs 2020
+18% since 2010-11, when it was 183
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
was 16.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 216 | 12.6 | 17.1:1 | 73% (158) |
| 2023-24 | 218 | 14.1 | 15.5:1 | 68% (148) |
| 2022-23 | 233 | 14.1 | 16.5:1 | 61% (141) |
| 2020-21 | 247 | 15 | 16.5:1 | 64% (158) |
| 2017-18 | 317 | 14 | 22.6:1 | 62% (197) |
| 2015-16 | 312 | 12 | 26.0:1 | 56% (175) |
| 2010-11 | 183 | 10 | 18.3:1 | 37% (68) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (317 to 216); teachers down 10% (14 to 12.6).
About Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School
Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School is a very small elementary school serving families in Savannah, Georgia. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 216 students. That is 64% below the average of about 605 students for elementary schools in Georgia.
Enrollment across the 58 schools in Savannah-Chatham County totals 36,355 students.
Black students account for 37% of enrollment at Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School, more than any other group. Enrollment also includes 34% White, 20% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. Chatham County residents are about 39% Black, a similar share. The diversity index for Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School is 71%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school's 12.6 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.1:1. Elementary schools in Georgia average 13.3:1, 3.8 fewer students per teacher than here. Income data for the school show 73% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Chatham County is close, at 74%.
Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School holds an F allk12 Grade, placing it above 3% of Georgia public elementary schools.
In Georgia, Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School is one of the bottom 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 19.3% compared with a predicted 39.5%.
The county, Chatham County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $71,097 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Chatham County has 60 public schools with about 36,380 students, including Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School.
Gould Elementary School, about 1.2 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 7 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School is 4th on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School is coded Rural: Fringe, for schools in rural territory close to an urban area. Charter status: Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School is a public charter school.
Over 4 years, enrollment decreased by 31 students, from 247 to 216.
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Chatham County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
300,879
Census ACS
Median income
$71,097
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
60
36,380 students
Quick facts
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Other schools in Savannah-Chatham County
- Godley Station SchoolElementary · 1,585 students
- Groves High SchoolHigh · 1,469 students
- Jenkins High SchoolHigh · 1,265 students
- Pulaski Elementary SChoolElementary · 1,147 students
- New Hampstead High SchoolHigh · 1,123 students
- New Hampstead K-8 SchoolElementary · 1,118 students
Other schools in Savannah
- Godley Station SchoolElementary · 1,585 students
- Jenkins High SchoolHigh · 1,265 students
- Pulaski Elementary SChoolElementary · 1,147 students
- Windsor Forest High SchoolHigh · 1,069 students
- Hesse SchoolElementary · 996 students
- Beach High SchoolHigh · 973 students
Nearby schools
- Gould Elementary School1.2 mi · 559
- Savannah Regional Youth Detention Center2.3 mi · 25
- Pulaski Elementary SChool2.8 mi · 1,147
- Haven Elementary School3.4 mi · 361
- Largo-Tibet Elementary School3.5 mi · 611
- DeRenne Middle School3.9 mi · 484
Frequently asked questions
About Coastal Empire Montessori Charter SchoolHow large is Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School?
Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School enrolls approximately 216 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School serve?
Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School is approximately 17.1:1 (13 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School?
Student demographics at Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School are roughly 34% White, 20% Hispanic, 37% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School in?
Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School is part of Savannah-Chatham County.
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