Three Rivers Montessori School

Three Rivers Montessori School is one of the micro-enrollment elementary-level communitys in ELK RIVER, Minnesota, overseen by Three Rivers Montessori School, with 119 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. That puts it 65% leaner than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Operationally, Three Rivers Montessori School answers to Three Rivers Montessori School, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Looking at the student body, Three Rivers Montessori School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%); the rest breaks down as 6% multiracial, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Sherburne County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Three Rivers Montessori School is in the bottom 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.8%; Three Rivers Montessori School posts 24.6%, -24.2 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, Sherburne County reports that the typical household earns roughly $105,466 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sherburne County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,306 students), Three Rivers Montessori School is one campus in the mix.

SPECTRUM HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Three Rivers Montessori School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 53.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. Three Rivers Montessori School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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