Casa Esperanza Montessori Charter School

Casa Esperanza Montessori Charter School is a high-enrollment elementary school in Wake Forest, North Carolina, (ZIP code 27587). The school covers pre-K through 8 and reported 752 students in 2024-25. Across elementary schools in North Carolina, the average enrollment is about 467.

Casa Esperanza Montessori Charter School is listed under Casa Esperanza Montessori in federal data.

Hispanic students are 53% of those enrolled at Casa Esperanza Montessori Charter School. Next come 22% White, 16% Black, 6% multiracial, and 2% Asian. That compares with about 12% Hispanic among all Wake County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 64%.

Casa Esperanza Montessori Charter School has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 18.8:1. Elementary schools in North Carolina have an average ratio of 14.9:1.

For Wake County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $105,768 a year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Counting Casa Esperanza Montessori Charter School, Wake County has 237 public schools.

Endeavor Charter School, about 0.8 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large). This is a charter school, which is a tuition-free public school operating under a charter.

Enrollment increased by 35% across 4 years, from 559 in 2020-21 to 752 in 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 20.0:1 in 2020-21, and 18.8:1 in 2024-25.

Casa Esperanza Montessori Charter School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.