Mountain City Public Montessori

Mountain City Public Montessori is one of the minimally staffed elementary campuss in Asheville, North Carolina, run under Mountain City Public Montessori, with 137 students on its rolls from grades K through 7. That puts it 71% below the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Mountain City Public Montessori is the operating authority for Mountain City Public Montessori, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, Mountain City Public Montessori shows that White students make up the majority at 77%. The remainder reads as 13% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 4% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Mountain City Public Montessori shows 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.1:1. The state averages around 14.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Around the school, census data for Buncombe County shows median household income runs about $74,436, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Mountain City Public Montessori is one of 61 public schools in Buncombe County (combined enrollment of about 29,908 students).

Montford North Star Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an inner-city site. As a public charter, Mountain City Public Montessori runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.