Waterford Montessori Academy

Located at 4860 MIDLAND AVE, in WATERFORD, Michigan, Waterford Montessori Academy is a small elementary school that serves 213 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Waterford Montessori Academy. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Waterford Montessori Academy sits 42% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Waterford Montessori Academy, which oversees 2 schools and 401 students, Waterford Montessori Academy is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Waterford Montessori Academy logs that White students make up the majority at 68%. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% multiracial. Compared to Oakland County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, Waterford Montessori Academy has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the surrounding community, census data for Oakland County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,760 per year, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Waterford Montessori Academy is one of 345 public schools in Oakland County (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students).

Kingsley Montgomery School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Waterford Montessori Academy.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting. As a public charter, Waterford Montessori Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Waterford Montessori Academy has contracted 16%, going from 253 students in 2018 to 213 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 87% to 68% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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