The Montessori School of Camden

The Montessori School of Camden is a small elementary school with an address in Camden, South Carolina. It enrolled 112 students in pre-K through 8 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 79% lower than the average for elementary schools in South Carolina, which is about 526.

The Montessori School of Camden is one school in a 30-school district, Charter Institute at Erskine, which enrolls 28,041 students.

White students are the majority at The Montessori School of Camden, with 71% of enrollment. Other groups make up 14% Black, 9% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. County-wide, about 67% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 47% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Teachers at the school number 12.5 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 9.0:1. This ratio sits 4.4 below the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in South Carolina.

Census estimates describe Kershaw County this way: the median household income is $68,231, about 24% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. In all, Kershaw County has 18 public schools and roughly 11,247 students.

The nearest other public school, Camden High, is about 1.2 miles away. There are 7 more public schools inside five miles.

By NCES locale, the school is Rural: Fringe, or in rural territory close to an urban area. Federal records list The Montessori School of Camden as a charter school.

Compared with 2020-21, the school had 12 more students in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 16.7:1 to 9.0:1.

Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at The Montessori School of Camden. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.