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NEW DISCOVERIES MONTESSORI ACADEMY

Hutchinson, Minnesota · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

219
Students enrolled
1
Public schools
21
Classroom teachers (FTE)
10.5:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 29
  • Kindergarten 24
  • Grade 1 26
  • Grade 2 26
  • Grade 3 24
  • Grade 4 23
  • Grade 5 25
  • Grade 6 14
  • Grade 7 16
  • Grade 8 12

By race/ethnicity

  • White 83%
  • Hispanic/Latino 11%
  • Two or more races 4%
  • Black or African American <1%
  • Asian <1%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

59% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 130 of 219 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 47%
  • Reduced-price lunch 12%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$23,498 spent per student on day-to-day operations Minnesota median: $15,494 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $12,901
  • Support services $9,664
  • Other (food service, etc.) $933

Where the money comes from

  • Local 2%
  • State 92%
  • Federal 6%

Total revenue $5.9 milliontotal spending $5.8 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 08

Locale (NCES)

Town: Distant

Total staff (FTE)

58

District office

1000 5TH AVE SE, Hutchinson MN 55350

County

Mcleod County

Official website

NCES District ID

2700277

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About NEW DISCOVERIES MONTESSORI ACADEMY

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

New Discoveries Montessori Academy’s primary purpose is to improve pupil learning. This purpose will be achieved in the following ways: Increased Learning Opportunities New Discoveries Montessori Academy increases learning opportunities for students by providing another choice in elementary education in the Hutchinson Area. This choice is grounded in the Montessori philosophy and pedagogy. This is especially desirable for those students that attend the local Montessori preschool and would like to continue their educational studies in that model. Through the use of the Montessori materials, students will receive hands-on learning experiences where children touch, make discoveries, and deeply understand complex concepts. The materials allow concrete understanding of concepts helpful for understanding abstract principles, are self-teaching and self-correcting, have multiple levels of challenge and can be used at different developmental levels. New Discoveries Montessori Academy designs classrooms utilizing the direction of the Montessori “prepared environment”. We believe that the larger community is officially part of our classroom environment. Field trips, also called “Going Out”, are a vital part of children’s personal, social, and intellectual development. Small groups of children plan and go on supervised trips all around our greater community. With Audubon Center of the North Woods, our sponsor, there are many environmental applications for our students. They offer residential environmental education experiences to schools with a full array of adventure programming including a wildlife barn, maple syruping shack, ropes course, hiking explorations, and wall climbing. Students at New Discoveries Montessori Academy participate in these unique environmental experiences.
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