Community Montessori

As a medium-sized all-grades campus in New Albany, Indiana, Community Montessori enrolls 487 students from grades pre-K through 12, run under Community Montessori Inc.

Operationally, Community Montessori answers to Community Montessori Inc, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Demographically, Community Montessori records that nearly all students (82%) are White; the rest comes out to 9% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 3% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Community Montessori has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 24.5:1 average. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Floyd County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Community Montessori sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 60.9%; actual is 29.5%, a gap of -31.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Floyd County) reports that median household earnings sit near $79,704, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Community Montessori is one of 17 public schools in Floyd County (combined enrollment of about 11,849 students).

The closest other public school is Grant Line Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Community Montessori. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Community Montessori ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 45.5%.

The campus sits in a residential setting. Community Montessori operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 10%: 539 students in 2018 compared to 487 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 89% to 82%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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