Beachside Montessori Village, Hollywood FL

Original Research by School Decision on Beachside Montessori Village

Beachside Montessori Village sits on Lincoln Street in Hollywood, Florida, a coastal South Florida city whose identity runs from the Hollywood Beach Broadwalk inland through a mix of residential neighborhoods and urban commercial corridors. The city's economy is anchored by Memorial Healthcare System, the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, HEICO Corporation in the aerospace and defense sector, and regional infrastructure like Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Port Everglades. It is a city with a working, employed base rather than a bedroom-suburb feel.

The school itself is a regular public Montessori school serving prekindergarten through eighth grade within the Broward County district. The enrollment is substantial for a PK-8 Montessori program, with students spread fairly evenly across all grade levels from pre-K through eighth. The student body is racially and ethnically mixed, with white and Hispanic students each making up large portions of enrollment and meaningful representation from Black, multiracial, and Asian families as well. Roughly a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which is a moderate share. Data on English learner rates and students with IEPs were not reported in the available records, so a parent wanting to understand supports for those populations should ask the school directly.

The academic results on Florida's state assessments are a clear strength. Across every tested grade in both reading and math, proficiency rates are high, consistently well above what one would expect from a typical public school anywhere in the state. Third graders test well in both subjects, and proficiency remains strong through eighth grade rather than tapering off as it does in many schools. The middle school years are particularly striking in ELA, where sixth, seventh, and eighth graders reach proficiency at exceptionally high rates. Math proficiency across the middle grades is similarly strong, with sixth grade reaching near-universal proficiency among tested students. Fifth grade science proficiency is solid, placing a large majority of students at the proficient level; eighth grade science results were suppressed, likely due to small group size at that grade level, so that data point is unavailable. No trend data across prior years was available, so it is not possible from this data to say whether the school has improved, held steady, or shifted over time.

Because the school does not serve high school grades, graduation rates do not apply here. No AP courses, dual enrollment, or career pathway data were provided. For families thinking about what comes after eighth grade, the pathway to high school will be through Broward County's high schools rather than through this building, and parents will want to research those options separately.

The housing market around the school reflects the broader South Florida dynamic: home values are near or slightly above state levels, and rents are high relative to income. The rent-to-income ratio locally is steep enough that a renter household considering a move to access this school should look carefully at the math. Home values have edged down modestly year over year even as rents have continued to rise slightly, which is the pattern across much of coastal Florida right now.

No information on the Broward district's current strategic priorities or operational changes was available before research concluded, so that context was left out rather than inferred.

What Beachside Montessori Village offers, plainly, is a Montessori pedagogical model from early childhood through middle school with documented academic outcomes that rank among the stronger PK-8 schools a parent would encounter in Florida. The peer environment is racially mixed and economically moderate. Families drawn to Montessori's approach to self-directed learning within a structured public school will find here a school where that model appears to be producing strong measurable results by the state's own academic standards.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 391%

School 91% · District 68% · ▲ 23 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Grade 485%

School 85% · District 69% · ▲ 16 pts above district

▲ 24 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 583%

School 83% · District 63% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

Grade 697%

School 97% · District 63% · ▲ 34 pts above district

▲ 35 pts above state median · ▲ 40 pts above county median

Grade 789%

School 89% · District 59% · ▲ 30 pts above district

▲ 40 pts above state median · ▲ 30 pts above county median

Grade 887%

School 87% · District 47% · ▲ 40 pts above district

▲ 36 pts above state median · ▲ 44 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 391%

School 91% · District 61% · ▲ 30 pts above district

▲ 35 pts above state median · ▲ 32 pts above county median

Grade 489%

School 89% · District 62% · ▲ 27 pts above district

▲ 35 pts above state median · ▲ 31 pts above county median

Grade 584%

School 84% · District 62% · ▲ 22 pts above district

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 26 pts above county median

Grade 695%

School 95% · District 65% · ▲ 30 pts above district

▲ 35 pts above state median · ▲ 34 pts above county median

Grade 796%

School 96% · District 60% · ▲ 36 pts above district

▲ 41 pts above state median · ▲ 37 pts above county median

Grade 895%

School 95% · District 59% · ▲ 36 pts above district

▲ 41 pts above state median · ▲ 38 pts above county median

Science

Grade 579%

School 79% · District 57% · ▲ 22 pts above district

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 26 pts above county median

This schoolBROWARD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income75%Higher-income96%21 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income92%Higher-income88%3 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income79%Higher-income86%7 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income92%Higher-income97%5 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income96%Higher-income96%1 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income86%Higher-income97%11 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income80%Higher-income94%14 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income88%Higher-income84%3 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income79%Higher-income84%5 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income92%Higher-income98%7 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income95%Higher-income87%8 pp gap