Summary:
Gettysburg Montessori Charter School is the sole elementary school in the Gettysburg Montessori Charter School district, located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The school serves students from kindergarten through 6th grade and has consistently ranked in the bottom half of Pennsylvania elementary schools, with a ranking of 1146 out of 1511 schools in the 2024-2025 school year.
Gettysburg Montessori Charter School's performance on PSSA (Pennsylvania System of School Assessment) tests is generally below the state average. In the 2024-2025 school year, the school's proficiency rates in Math and English Language Arts were 23.6% and 34.3%, respectively, compared to the state averages of 41.7% and 48.5%. The school's performance on PSSA tests has been mixed, with some grades performing better than others. For example, in the 2023-2024 school year, 3rd-grade students performed better than the state average in Math (50.1% vs. 51.4%), but 4th-grade students performed significantly worse (20% vs. 48.7%).
The Gettysburg Montessori Charter School has a relatively high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, at 60.15% in the 2023-2024 school year. The school's student-teacher ratio is 14.6, which is slightly higher than the state average, and its per-student spending for the 2022-2023 school year was $13,346. These factors suggest that the school faces socioeconomic challenges that may contribute to its overall lower performance compared to the state average.
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