Tremont Montessori School

Tremont Montessori School is a PK–8 Montessori program serving 330 students at 2409 W 10th St in Cleveland's 44113 ZIP code, part of the Cleveland Municipal district and one of the smaller schools in its immediate neighborhood.

Academically, Tremont Montessori School sits in Ohio's bottom tier: 1,339th of 1,560 statewide (14th percentile), a 1-star rating, and 689th of 773 within Cleveland Municipal. It has never risen above the 25th percentile in a decade, and it lost ground while several neighbors gained — Broadway Academy moved from the 17th to the 60th percentile and Lincoln Park Academy from the 18th to the 31st, while Paul L Dunbar Elementary School gained modestly and Tremont slipped below Joseph M Gallagher School. What makes the picture unusual is that the school's inputs look strong: its 12.2-to-1 student-teacher ratio is the lowest in the neighborhood, and per-student spending of $11,895 (2018–19) is near the top locally. Chronic absenteeism of 43.2% beats the district's 54.3% and ranks third-best among nearby schools, improving about 13 points over four years — faster than the district. Tremont also runs above its district in English language arts (~41% vs. ~34%) and science (~30% vs. ~28%), though every subject trails the state by 25–30 points.

Two internal patterns stand out. The special education subgroup ranks at the 49th percentile — roughly three to four times the school's overall standing — and posted a 63rd-percentile, 3-star year in 2023–24, a real institutional strength. Results also swing sharply by grade: seventh grade reached 60% in ELA and 43.8% in math, close to state averages, while eighth grade landed near the bottom locally in every subject and sixth-grade math came in at 8.3%. With 330 students spread across PK–8, single-grade figures rest on small numbers, so multi-year trends matter more than any one year. Free/reduced-lunch data is not reported, so poverty comparisons aren't possible here.