Crossroads Montessori

Crossroads Montessori is a low-enrollment K-5 school in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, part of Saint Paul Public Schools. The school caters to 178 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so Crossroads Montessori sits 48% smaller than that benchmark.

Crossroads Montessori is one of 87 schools operated by Saint Paul Public Schools, a district that educates 33,152 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Crossroads Montessori shows that the largest single group is Black at 28%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 25% White, 21% multiracial, 14% Hispanic, 12% Asian. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Crossroads Montessori shows 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Ramsey County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Crossroads Montessori tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.0%.

Zooming out to the county, Ramsey County reports that median household earnings sit near $81,568, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Ramsey County's 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), Crossroads Montessori is one campus in the mix.

Crossroads Science Program is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Crossroads Montessori comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 18.7%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Crossroads Montessori's enrollment has contracted 30% since 2018, when it stood at 253 (now 178). The Asian share of enrollment fell from 26% to 12% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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