Edmonson Montessori

Located at 1300 W CANFIELD ST, in DETROIT, Michigan, Edmonson Montessori is a tight-knit primary school that caters to 262 students (grades pre-K through 8), operated by Detroit Public Schools Community District. That puts it 29% leaner than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.

Detroit Public Schools Community District comprises 103 schools with combined enrollment of 48,448 students; Edmonson Montessori is among them.

On the student-mix side, Edmonson Montessori logs that the largest single group is Black, at 69% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Edmonson Montessori has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Wayne County (around 66%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Edmonson Montessori tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.5%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Wayne County) reports that median household earnings sit near $60,539, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Wayne County runs 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), of which Edmonson Montessori is one.

Nearest neighbor: Detroit Lions Academy, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Edmonson Montessori.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

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