Return on Investment in Early Childhood Education

For more information on the economics of investment in human development in the earliest years, please check out Nobel Prize winning economist James Heckman's work at The Heckman Equation

All children deserve the richness of Montessori!
We at Magnolia believe that all children are inherently good and inherently worthy. We believe that children are full human beings deserving of respect. We believe that all children deserve the best that the world has to offer: beautiful, orderly environments, kind and trained adults to assist them, and the freedom within limits to explore securely and develop to their fullest potentials.

On Poverty and Economic Justice

  • 22.4 percent of Kentucky children lived in poverty in 2016. (Ellis)

  • Louisville’s poverty rate is 14%. (Ellis)

  • The federal poverty line is defined as a family of four with a family income of $24,850 or less. (Ellis)

  • The $48,375 median family income in Kentucky is $12,000 less than the national median (Ellis)

  • One in five Louisville children, or roughly 38,000 young people, live in poverty. Of those households with a child in poverty, about two-thirds have at least one person who is working but with a median income of about $11,000 annually, that isn't enough to escape poverty, (Bailey)

  • Louisville ranks 7th nationally among U.S. cities for the number of children living in poverty (21%). (Competitive City Update)

  • Louisville currently ranks 7th among its peer cities in child poverty among young children, with 23.9% of children under the age of 5 living in poverty. The poverty line in 2015 was $15,930 for a family of two and $20,090 for a family of three. (GLP website)​

  • Magnolia Montessori exists on the dividing line between two neighborhoods: Old Louisville, which has a 4% child poverty rate, and Smoketown, which has a 69% poverty rate. (GLP - Children Under Five)

Sources

Bailey, P. (2018, April 18). 1 in 5 Louisville kids lives in poverty, and a report says it's holding the city back. Courier-Journal. Retrieved from link.

Ellis, R., & Kentucky, C. (2018, September 17). Ky. poverty rate persists. Daily Independent. Retrieved from link.

Greater Louisville Project (2018). Child Poverty Under Five. Retrieved from link.

Greater Louisville Project. (2018). 2017 Competitive City Update, Louisville: Poverty Beyond Income. Retrieved from link.