Willow Oak Montessori

Willow Oak Montessori, located in Pittsboro, North Carolina, is a small elementary school. The school runs kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 281 students. By comparison, elementary schools in North Carolina enroll about 467 students on average.

Willow Oak Montessori operates as its own local education agency.

Willow Oak Montessori is 81% White by enrollment. The remaining shares are 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, and 2% Asian. Census estimates put the White share of Chatham County's population at about 71%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Willow Oak Montessori scores 33%.

Staffing at Willow Oak Montessori comes to 28.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 9.8:1. The school's 9.8:1 compares with an average of 14.9:1 for elementary schools in North Carolina.

In Chatham County, home to about 80,151 people, the median household earns about $94,317 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 49% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Willow Oak Montessori shares Chatham County with 24 other public schools.

Willow Oak Montessori is about 0.2 miles from Margaret B. Pollard Middle, its nearest public school. There are 5 other public schools within five miles.

NCES describes the area around Willow Oak Montessori as Rural: Fringe, meaning in rural territory close to an urban area. Federal records list Willow Oak Montessori as a charter school.

Enrollment in 2024-25 was 281, close to the 277 recorded in 2020-21. The ratio was 11.5:1 in 2020-21 and 9.8:1 in 2024-25.

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