Lincoln Heights Montessori

Set in Charlotte, North Carolina, Lincoln Heights Montessori is a tight-knit elementary school, run under Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. It caters to 244 students across grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 48% below the state mean of about 467.

Within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, which oversees 186 schools and 145,014 students, Lincoln Heights Montessori is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Lincoln Heights Montessori reports that the most-represented group is Black (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 25% White, 16% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Lincoln Heights Montessori tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 39% of students at Lincoln Heights Montessori qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Mecklenburg County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Lincoln Heights Montessori sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.0%; this one delivers 79.7%.

In the broader community, Mecklenburg County reports that median household earnings sit near $87,005, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Lincoln Heights Montessori is one of 226 public schools in Mecklenburg County (combined enrollment of about 170,407 students).

The closest other public school is Williams Secondary Montessori, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lincoln Heights Montessori comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 56.3%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Lincoln Heights Montessori's enrollment has increased 46% since 2018, when it stood at 167 (now 244). White enrollment moved from 44% to 25% across the same window.

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