Summary:
The City Garden Montessori district in Missouri operates two elementary schools: City Garden Montessori Eaec and City Garden Montessori Ecec. While the schools serve different grade levels, with Eaec covering 1st through 8th grade and Ecec focusing on pre-K and kindergarten, they share some notable similarities and differences.
Both City Garden Montessori Eaec and City Garden Montessori Ecec have relatively high chronic absenteeism rates, with 26.5% for both schools in the 2023-2024 school year. However, City Garden Montessori Eaec has a significantly larger enrollment of 374 students, compared to 199 students at City Garden Montessori Ecec.
In terms of academic performance, City Garden Montessori Eaec generally lags behind the state averages in most subject areas and grade levels, with the largest gaps in 6th grade math (18.5% vs 45.5%) and 3rd grade math (26.6% vs 41.4%). The school's strongest performance is in 6th grade English Language Arts, where 49.9% of students are proficient or better, compared to the state average of 39.3%. Meanwhile, City Garden Montessori Ecec had a spending of $25,299 per student in the 2021-2022 school year, which is higher than the state average, but this does not appear to have translated into higher test scores.
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