Montessori Regional CS

Montessori Regional CS is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in Erie, Pennsylvania, operated by Montessori Regional CS, with 626 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. That puts it 41% bigger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Montessori Regional CS is the operating authority for Montessori Regional CS, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Looking at the student body, Montessori Regional CS shows that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 16% Black, 15% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 98% of students at Montessori Regional CS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Erie County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Montessori Regional CS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.6%; this one delivers 32.2%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Erie County) logs that median household earnings sit near $63,354, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Erie County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,738 students), of which Montessori Regional CS is one.

Tracy El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Montessori Regional CS. On composite proficiency, Montessori Regional CS comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.5%.

The school occupies a residential site. Montessori Regional CS operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Montessori Regional CS's enrollment has grew 20% since 2018, when it stood at 520 (now 626). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 69% to 55% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Montessori Regional CS community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.