Palmyra Eagle Montessori School

Palmyra Eagle Montessori School operates as a very small K-5 school in Palmyra, Wisconsin, overseen by Palmyra-Eagle Area School District. Current enrollment sits at 26 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 92% smaller than the state mean of about 323.

Palmyra-Eagle Area School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 521 students. Palmyra Eagle Montessori School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Palmyra Eagle Montessori School reports that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Around 27% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Jefferson County (around 35%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

In the area at large, Jefferson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,750 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Jefferson County runs 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,194 students), of which Palmyra Eagle Montessori School is one.

The closest other public school is Palmyra-Eagle Middle, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Palmyra Eagle Montessori School.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area. Palmyra Eagle Montessori School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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