Montrose Early Childhood Center

Set in South Orange, New Jersey, Montrose Early Childhood Center is a micro-enrollment elementary campus, overseen by South Orange-Maplewood School District. It educates 98 students across grade pre-K. That puts it 76% below the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

South Orange-Maplewood School District runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 6,728 students. Montrose Early Childhood Center is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Montrose Early Childhood Center records that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 24% Black, 16% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Montrose Early Childhood Center has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Around 14% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Essex County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, Essex County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Montrose Early Childhood Center is one of 249 public schools in Essex County (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students).

STEM Innovation Academy of the Oranges is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Montrose Early Childhood Center's enrollment has ticked down 23% since 2018, when it stood at 127 (now 98). White enrollment moved from 60% to 42% across the same window.

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