Summary:
The Downtown Montessori Academy Inc district is home to just one school — Downtown Montessori — an elementary school serving grades PK–8 with 218 students in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Because the district contains only this one school, district-level results and school-level results are essentially the same. There are no middle, high, or alternative schools in this area, so families here have a single PK–8 option within the district.
Academically, the school's most consistent strength is English Language Arts: it exceeded the state in every tested grade from 3 through 8 in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, with 8th grade reaching 100% proficiency in both years. Social Studies and Science were also above the state in both tested grades in both years, including 100% in 8th-grade Social Studies both years and 8th-grade Science in 2025–2026. Math is a story of two halves: grades 6–8 averaged 77.1% proficiency in 2025–2026 versus 54.3% statewide, while grades 3–5 averaged 32.9% versus 53.1%. Attendance is a clear bright spot — chronic absenteeism was 8.2% in 2024–2025, less than half Wisconsin's 17.3%. The student–teacher ratio is 13.6.
Two caveats matter. First, grades 3–5 math trails the state and the gap widened in 2025–2026, making early-grade math the clearest academic concern. Second, the reported dropout rate of 16.0%, against 1.1% statewide, is difficult to interpret for a PK–8 school with no high school grades and may reflect a reporting definition or anomaly. Free/reduced-lunch percentage is not reported, and per-student spending of $8,771 is from 2020–2021. The district is rated 4 stars and ranked 81 of 432, in the 81st percentile, while the school's own recent rank history shows 3 stars at the 52nd–63rd percentile.
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