Craig Montessori School

Craig Montessori School is one of the intimate elementary campuss in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, operated by Milwaukee School District, with 220 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Craig Montessori School sits 32% smaller than that benchmark.

Milwaukee School District runs 155 schools in total, collectively educating 65,835 students. Craig Montessori School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Craig Montessori School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (83%); the rest reads as 9% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Craig Montessori School shows 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Craig Montessori School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 40.3%; actual is 19.4%, a gap of -20.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Milwaukee County shows median household income runs about $64,435, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Craig Montessori School is one of 284 public schools in Milwaukee County (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students).

Nearest neighbor: HAPA-Hmong American Peace Academy K3-12, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Craig Montessori School. On composite proficiency, Craig Montessori School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 21.6%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Craig Montessori School has edged down 44%, going from 391 students in 2018 to 220 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment contracted from 6% to 1% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 in 2025.

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