Bay View Montessori School

Bay View Montessori School is a primary school of mid-sized scale in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, run under Milwaukee School District, educateing 449 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 39% larger than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

Across the 155 schools in Milwaukee School District (65,835 students total), Bay View Montessori School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bay View Montessori School logs that 57% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% Black.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Milwaukee County (around 64%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Bay View Montessori School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.2%, the actual is 58.1%, a residual of +2.9 points.

In the surrounding community, Milwaukee County reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Milwaukee County runs 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), of which Bay View Montessori School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Burdick Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bay View Montessori School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bay View Montessori School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 38.7%.

Bay View Montessori School operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bay View Montessori School has ticked up 59%, going from 282 students in 2018 to 449 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 68% to 57% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 26.1:1 in 2018 to 23.2:1 today.

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