MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a heavily attended primary school, overseen by MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. It caters to 452 students across grades K through 8. That puts it 57% larger than the typical public school in New Mexico, which averages around 287 students.

MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a school of MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

In terms of who attends, MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 58% of enrollment; the rest looks like 29% White, 9% multiracial, 2% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 49% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.9:1, putting MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Bernalillo County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of New Mexico public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 33.7%; MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 56.7%, +23.1 points above that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Bernalillo County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,473 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 211 public schools in Bernalillo County (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students).

The closest other public school is MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.0%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 7%: 421 students in 2018 compared to 452 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 43% to 29% across the same window.

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