Montessori at Franklin Elementary

Montessori at Franklin Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school with an address in ROCHESTER, Minnesota. The school reports 174 students in kindergarten through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in Minnesota is about 344 students.

Montessori at Franklin Elementary reports to ROCHESTER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 47 schools and 17,430 students.

White students make up a majority at Montessori at Franklin Elementary, at 66%. The next largest groups are 11% Black, 10% multiracial, 6% Asian, and 5% Hispanic. In Olmsted County overall, about 77% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 53% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

A ratio of 16.6:1 comes from the school's 12.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is 2.9 students per teacher above the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Minnesota. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 26% in 2023-24. That is 9 points below the 35% average for public schools in Olmsted County.

Within Olmsted County, the median household income is $95,406, about 49% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. In all, Olmsted County has 72 public schools and roughly 24,627 students.

Franklin Elementary School is the public school closest to Montessori at Franklin Elementary, less than a tenth of a mile away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Mid-size.

Compared with 2017-18, the school had 20 fewer students in 2023-24. Over the same years, the White share dropped from 76% to 66%. In 2017-18, the student-to-teacher ratio was 19.7:1; by 2023-24 it was 14.4:1.

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