Barron Area Montessori School

Barron Area Montessori School is one of the rural-scale elementary schools in Almena, Wisconsin, overseen by Barron Area School District, with 59 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 82% leaner than the state mean of about 323.

Barron Area School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,073 students; Barron Area Montessori School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Barron Area Montessori School logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Barron Area Montessori School shows 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.7:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 58% of students at Barron Area Montessori School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Barron County (around 41%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Around the school, census data for Barron County shows the typical household earns roughly $65,933 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Barron County runs 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,199 students), of which Barron Area Montessori School is one.

Laker Online is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.3 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.

The campus sits in a rural setting. Barron Area Montessori School 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. Barron Area Montessori School's enrollment has climbed 18% since 2018, when it stood at 50 (now 59). Black enrollment moved from 10% to 2% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

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