Maria Montessori Academy

Maria Montessori Academy, a low-enrollment combined-grade school in OGDEN, Utah, one of the schools within Maria Montessori Academy, instructs 402 students, covering grades K through 9. Enrollment runs roughly 41% below the state mean of about 687.

Operationally, Maria Montessori Academy answers to Maria Montessori Academy, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Maria Montessori Academy records that White students make up the majority at 67%. The remainder comes out to 25% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 83% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Maria Montessori Academy records 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.9:1 average. Roughly 8% of students at Maria Montessori Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Weber County (around 35%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Maria Montessori Academy sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 55.7%; actual is 19.1%, a gap of -36.6 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Weber County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,005, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Maria Montessori Academy is one of 95 public schools in Weber County (combined enrollment of about 49,670 students).

Nearest neighbor: North Ogden School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Maria Montessori Academy. On composite proficiency, Maria Montessori Academy comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.9%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Maria Montessori Academy's enrollment has fell 37% since 2018, when it stood at 640 (now 402). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 79% to 67%.

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