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Enrollment
485
Elementary
DISTRICT 596 · STATE 467
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG SCHOOLS·NCES 370297001256
Sedgefield Montessori
715 Hartford Avenue, Charlotte, NC 28209 · (980) 343-5830 · Mecklenburg County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL485 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 85% of North Carolina public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded North Carolina public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 14.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
95 students
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 82%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 68 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 59 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 44 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 68% larger than its 6th grade class (44).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Sedgefield Montessori→Williams Secondary Montessori
Based on grade levels within Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)English Language Arts
82.5%
NC avg 50.9%
Math
78.7%
NC avg 52.2%
What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
Source: NC EOG / EOC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
80.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
72.9%
based on NC schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Sedgefield Montessori
Sedgefield Montessori's state test result (80.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sedgefield Montessori this school | 485 | 19.6% | 80.9% |
| Jones Dairy Elementary Wake Forest | 627 | 15.0% | 81.8% |
| Grand Oak Elementary Huntersville | 549 | 21.3% | 88.6% |
| Leesville Road Elementary Raleigh | 528 | 27.7% | 81.4% |
| Beverly Woods Elementary Charlotte | 645 | 18.9% | 82.3% |
| EP Pearce Elementary Greensboro | 653 | 27.3% | 81.4% |
Matched among North Carolina elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Sedgefield Montessori ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In North Carolina | In Mecklenburg County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.9% | #63 of 1,297 | #17 of 115 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.7% | #146 of 1,296 | #27 of 115 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.5% | #29 of 1,300 | #10 of 116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 485 | #662 of 1,485 | #93 of 136 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #287 of 1,377 | #19 of 133 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.8% | #713 of 1,379 | #61 of 133 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.6% | #1,358 of 1,414 | #116 of 130 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.0% | #749 of 937 | #62 of 72 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
485
-30 (-6%) vs 2020
+35% since 1990-91, when it was 360
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 16.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 485 | 36.5 | 13.3:1 | 20% (95) |
| 2023-24 | 506 | 31.9 | 15.9:1 | 21% (106) |
| 2022-23 | 513 | 32.2 | 15.9:1 | 13% (68) |
| 2020-21 | 515 | 31 | 16.6:1 | 8% (42) |
| 2017-18 | 516 | 26.1 | 19.8:1 | 9% (49) |
| 2015-16 | 517 | 25 | 20.7:1 | 11% (58) |
| 2010-11 | 478 | 26 | 18.4:1 | 14% (69) |
| 2000-01 | 266 | 25 | 10.6:1 | 70% (187) |
| 1990-91 | 360 | 24 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sedgefield Montessori.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (516 to 485); teachers up 40% (26.1 to 36.5).
About Sedgefield Montessori
Sedgefield Montessori serves students in Charlotte, North Carolina, as a medium-sized elementary school. It covers pre-K through 6, with a total enrollment of 485 students.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools counts 186 schools and 145,014 students, including Sedgefield Montessori.
Roughly 60% of students at Sedgefield Montessori are White. Enrollment also includes 14% Black, 9% multiracial, 9% Asian, and 8% Hispanic. Among people living in Mecklenburg County, the White share is about 45%. The school's diversity index is 60%, meaning two students picked at random have a 60% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.3:1 at Sedgefield Montessori, with 36.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. On average, elementary schools in North Carolina have 14.9:1, compared with 13.3:1 here. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 20% of enrollment. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Mecklenburg County is 71%.
Sedgefield Montessori is graded A by allk12, scoring above 85% of North Carolina public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Sedgefield Montessori's average proficiency rate on state tests of 80.9% is 8.0 points above the 72.9% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Mecklenburg County has these Census figures: the median household income is $87,005, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 49%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. In all, Mecklenburg County has 226 public schools and roughly 170,407 students.
The nearest other public school, Sedgefield Middle, is about 0.6 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 60.1%; Sedgefield Montessori's is 80.9%, ranking 3rd of 7.
Under the NCES locale system, Sedgefield Montessori is City: Large.
Sedgefield Montessori's enrollment dropped from 515 in 2020-21 to 485 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 16.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 13.3:1.
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Mecklenburg County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,154,681
Census ACS
Median income
$87,005
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
226
170,407 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
- Myers Park High SchoolHigh · 3,225 students
- Ardrey Kell High SchoolHigh · 3,036 students
- South Mecklenburg High SchoolHigh · 2,534 students
- William Amos Hough HighHigh · 2,518 students
- East Mecklenburg High SchoolHigh · 2,422 students
- Palisades High SchoolHigh · 2,332 students
Other schools in Charlotte
- Myers Park High SchoolHigh · 3,225 students
- Ardrey Kell High SchoolHigh · 3,036 students
- South Mecklenburg High SchoolHigh · 2,534 students
- East Mecklenburg High SchoolHigh · 2,422 students
- Palisades High SchoolHigh · 2,332 students
- Julius L. Chambers High SchoolHigh · 2,225 students
Nearby schools
- Sedgefield Middle0.6 mi · 534
- Marie G Davis School1.1 mi · 328
- Dilworth Elementary1.6 mi · 411
- Dilworth Elementary School Latta Campus1.6 mi · 330
- Myers Park Traditional Elem1.6 mi · 678
- Pinewood Elementary1.7 mi · 521
Frequently asked questions
About Sedgefield MontessoriWhat is the total enrollment at Sedgefield Montessori?
Sedgefield Montessori enrolls approximately 485 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Sedgefield Montessori serve?
Sedgefield Montessori serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Sedgefield Montessori?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Sedgefield Montessori is approximately 13.3:1 (37 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sedgefield Montessori?
At Sedgefield Montessori, the student body is approximately 60% White, 8% Hispanic, 14% Black, 9% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Sedgefield Montessori in?
Sedgefield Montessori is part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.