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Enrollment
660
Elementary
DISTRICT 470 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCKFORD SD 205·NCES 173451001589
Montessori Elementary School
2021 Hawthorne Dr, Rockford, IL 61107 · (815) 654-4906 · Winnebago County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL660 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 43% of Illinois public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.3:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
240 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 56%
Community
5
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 | 69 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 69 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 64 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 61 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 51 | 8% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 35% larger than its 8th grade class (51).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 69% · 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
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
51.8%
IL avg 51.0% . +9.4pp since 2023
Math
36.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +9.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.8% | 36.8% |
| 2023-24 | 42.4% | 27.5% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
46.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.5%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Illinois's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Montessori Elementary School
Montessori Elementary School's state test result (46.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montessori Elementary School this school | 660 | 36.4% | 46.0% |
| River View Elementary School Plainfield | 584 | 37.7% | 50.0% |
| Gary D Wright Elementary School Hampshire | 742 | 36.3% | 44.1% |
| Charles Reed Elementary School Plainfield | 641 | 36.7% | 38.0% |
| Fox Chase Elementary School Oswego | 661 | 37.7% | 52.2% |
| Jones Elementary School Joliet | 553 | 32.4% | 44.4% |
Matched among Illinois 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 Montessori Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Winnebago County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #710 of 1,925 | #11 of 44 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.8% | #1,064 of 2,077 ▼ 158 | #14 of 44 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.8% | #940 of 2,077 ▼ 215 | #11 of 44 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 660 | #171 of 2,419 | #3 of 54 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #1,835 of 2,035 | #28 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.4% | #289 of 2,042 | #16 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.4% | #1,639 of 2,132 | #41 of 53 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +19.1% | #127 of 615 | #6 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
660
+73 (+12%) vs 2020
+76% since 2000-01, when it was 375
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 | 660 | 39.1 | 16.9:1 | 36% (240) |
| 2023-24 | 636 | 38.6 | 16.5:1 | 39% (251) |
| 2022-23 | 610 | 38.4 | 15.9:1 | 33% (204) |
| 2020-21 | 587 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 554 | 34.2 | 16.2:1 | 34% (191) |
| 2015-16 | 336 | 18 | 18.7:1 | 39% (130) |
| 2010-11 | 334 | 21 | 15.9:1 | 61% (203) |
| 2000-01 | 375 | 20 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Montessori Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 19% (554 to 660); teachers up 14% (34.2 to 39.1).
About Montessori Elementary School
Montessori Elementary School is a public elementary school run by Rockford SD 205 in Rockford, Illinois. It has an enrollment of 660 students in pre-K through 8. Across elementary schools in Illinois, the average enrollment is about 381.
Montessori Elementary School is one of the 44 schools that make up Rockford SD 205 (28,467 students in total).
About 51% of the student body at Montessori Elementary School is White. Other students are 19% Hispanic, 17% Black, and 11% multiracial. By comparison, Winnebago County residents are about 66% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 66, compared with 70 nationally.
Montessori Elementary School lists 39.1 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 16.9 students per teacher. The school's 16.9:1 compares with an average of 13.9:1 for elementary schools in Illinois. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 36% of the student body. That rate is below the 61% average among public schools in Winnebago County.
Among Illinois public elementary schools, Montessori Elementary School outscored 43%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
Montessori Elementary School is 4.5 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (46.0% versus 50.5%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Illinois.
In the surrounding county, Winnebago County, the median household earns about $65,837 a year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Winnebago County has 94 public schools with about 44,103 students, including Montessori Elementary School.
Eisenhower Middle School is about 0.3 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Montessori Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Montessori Elementary School is 2nd of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Montessori Elementary School had a net gain of 73 students, or 12%.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on special education services, counseling, and support programs here. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Winnebago County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
283,292
Census ACS
Median income
$65,837
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
94
44,103 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rockford SD 205
- Guilford High SchoolHigh · 2,216 students
- Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 2,173 students
- Auburn High SchoolHigh · 1,957 students
- Rockford East High SchoolHigh · 1,719 students
- Rockford Envrnmntl Science AcademyMiddle · 1,108 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 963 students
Other schools in Rockford
- Guilford High SchoolHigh · 2,216 students
- Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 2,173 students
- Auburn High SchoolHigh · 1,957 students
- Rockford East High SchoolHigh · 1,719 students
- Rockford Envrnmntl Science AcademyMiddle · 1,108 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 963 students
Other Montessori Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Montessori Elementary. Montessori Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOLALBUQUERQUE, NM · 452 students
Nearby schools
- Eisenhower Middle School0.3 mi · 963
- Brookview Elementary School1.0 mi · 484
- C Henry Bloom Elementary School1.1 mi · 426
- Clifford P Carlson Elementary School1.1 mi · 390
- Spring Creek Elementary School1.1 mi · 523
- Maud E Johnson Elementary School1.2 mi · 425
Frequently asked questions
About Montessori Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Montessori Elementary School?
Montessori Elementary School enrolls approximately 660 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Montessori Elementary School serve?
Montessori Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Montessori Elementary School?
Approximately 16.9:1 students per teacher at Montessori Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Montessori Elementary School?
At Montessori Elementary School, the student body is approximately 51% White, 19% Hispanic, 17% Black, 2% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Montessori Elementary School in?
Montessori Elementary School is part of Rockford SD 205.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.