HOLLIDAY MONTESSORI

Set in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, HOLLIDAY MONTESSORI is a moderately sized K-5 school, operated by KANSAS CITY 33. It instructs 360 students across grades pre-K through 6.

KANSAS CITY 33 runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 15,079 students. HOLLIDAY MONTESSORI is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, HOLLIDAY MONTESSORI lists that 67% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest consists of 19% White, 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at HOLLIDAY MONTESSORI qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Jackson County (around 60%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, HOLLIDAY MONTESSORI performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 35.6%, a residual of -13.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate median household income runs about $68,577, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jackson County runs 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), of which HOLLIDAY MONTESSORI is one.

Nearest neighbor: B. BANNEKER ELEMENTARY, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HOLLIDAY MONTESSORI. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HOLLIDAY MONTESSORI ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 57.0%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 12%: 411 students in 2018 compared to 360 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 93% to 67%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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