Highland Mill Montessori

Highland Mill Montessori operates as a close-knit elementary school in Charlotte, North Carolina, overseen by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Current enrollment sits at 341 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 27% smaller than the state mean of about 467.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools comprises 186 schools with combined enrollment of 145,014 students; Highland Mill Montessori is among them.

Looking at the student body, Highland Mill Montessori records that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 33% Black, 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Mecklenburg County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Highland Mill Montessori reports 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 22% of students at Highland Mill Montessori qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Mecklenburg County (around 71%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Highland Mill Montessori performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.1%, the actual is 79.1%, a residual of +7.0 points.

Around the school, Mecklenburg County reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,005 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Highland Mill Montessori is one of 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students).

The closest other public school is Villa Heights Elementary, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Highland Mill Montessori comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 41.9%.

Highland Mill Montessori operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Highland Mill Montessori's enrollment has ticked up 16% since 2018, when it stood at 294 (now 341). Black enrollment moved from 47% to 33% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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