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Enrollment
466
Elementary
DISTRICT 425 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTICELLO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361974001809
KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL
26 PATRICIA PL, MONTICELLO, NY 12701 · (845) 794-4240 · Sullivan County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL466 STUDENTS
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Scored higher than 2% of New York public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
370 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 170 | 36% |
| Grade 4 | 136 | 29% |
| Grade 5 | 160 | 34% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within MONTICELLO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
24.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
21.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.0% | 21.0% |
| 2023-24 | 13.0% | 18.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
18.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-27.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 46% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL
KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL's state test result (18.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL this school | 466 | 79.4% | 18.8% |
| PS 145 BLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL (THE) NEW YORK | 490 | 75.9% | 37.0% |
| MARIE CURIE INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND COMMUNICATION AMSTERDAM | 446 | 80.3% | 42.7% |
| GEORGE L COOKE SCHOOL MONTICELLO | 590 | 74.7% | N/A |
| NORTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GENEVA | 498 | 68.5% | 27.2% |
| PS 111 ADOLPH S OCHS NEW YORK | 398 | 76.9% | 48.2% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Sullivan County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.8% | #2,255 of 2,335 | #8 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.0% | #2,239 of 2,342 ▲ 6 | #8 of 8 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #2,236 of 2,343 ▲ 51 | #8 of 8 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 466 | #988 of 2,585 | #6 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.7:1 | #348 of 2,338 | #4 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.5% | #342 of 2,388 | #3 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.4% | #786 of 2,534 | #1 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.8% | #442 of 606 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
466
-44 (-9%) vs 2020
-9% since 1990-91, when it was 514
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
was 11.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 466 | 48 | 9.7:1 | 79% (370) |
| 2023-24 | 468 | 46.3 | 10.1:1 | 78% (365) |
| 2022-23 | 492 | 50 | 9.8:1 | 81% (399) |
| 2020-21 | 510 | 44 | 11.6:1 | 77% (395) |
| 2017-18 | 449 | 43 | 10.4:1 | 77% (345) |
| 2015-16 | 458 | 42 | 10.9:1 | N/A |
| 2010-11 | 481 | 46 | 10.5:1 | 56% (268) |
| 2000-01 | 551 | 43 | 12.8:1 | 60% (330) |
| 1990-91 | 514 | 32 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL.
About KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL
KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL is an elementary school located in MONTICELLO, New York, in Sullivan County. It has an enrollment of 466 students in grades 3 through 5.
MONTICELLO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL along with 4 other schools, enrolling 2,695 students in total.
No group is above 50% at KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL; the largest is Hispanic, at 46%. The school is also 30% White, 13% Black, 8% multiracial, and 2% Asian. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 19%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL scores 67%.
The school's 48 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.7:1. Elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1, 3.1 more students per teacher than here. Income data for the school show 79% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 61% average for public schools in Sullivan County.
Among New York public elementary schools, KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL outscored 2%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate across its state test results near 45.8%. KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL posts 18.8%, 27.0 points below that, which places it in the bottom 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
For Sullivan County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $72,382, about 30% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 20 public schools in the county, enrolling about 9,164, KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL among them.
Among nearby public schools, MONTICELLO HIGH SCHOOL is closest at about 0.2 miles. Other public schools within five miles number 3. The school's 18.8% average proficiency ranks 7th among 7 nearby schools.
In the federal locale system, KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL is coded Town: Distant, for schools in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 466, compared with 510 in 2020-21. Federal data show the ratio falling from 11.6:1 to 9.7:1.
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Sullivan County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
79,721
Census ACS
Median income
$72,382
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
20
9,164 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MONTICELLO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MONTICELLO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 833 students
- GEORGE L COOKE SCHOOLElementary · 590 students
- ROBERT J KAISER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 587 students
- EMMA C CHASE SCHOOLElementary · 219 students
Other schools in MONTICELLO
- MONTICELLO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 833 students
- GEORGE L COOKE SCHOOLElementary · 590 students
- ROBERT J KAISER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 587 students
Nearby schools
- MONTICELLO HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 833
- ROBERT J KAISER MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 587
- GEORGE L COOKE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 590
- FALLSBURG JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL7.4 mi · 663
- BENJAMIN COSOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL7.7 mi · 841
- SULLIVAN BOCES10.7 mi · 238
Frequently asked questions
About KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL?
KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL enrolls approximately 466 students in grades 03-05.
What age range does KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL serve?
KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL serves students from grade 03 through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL?
Approximately 9.7:1 students per teacher at KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL?
At KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 30% White, 46% Hispanic, 13% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL public or private?
KENNETH L RUTHERFORD SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by MONTICELLO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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