MONT PLEASANT MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in SCHENECTADY, New York, MONT PLEASANT MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-tier middle school, one of the schools within SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It teaches 569 students across grades 6 through 8.

SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 8,948 students; MONT PLEASANT MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, MONT PLEASANT MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Asian (27%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 26% Black, 24% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 11% White. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 5%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, MONT PLEASANT MIDDLE SCHOOL has 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Schenectady County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, MONT PLEASANT MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.4%; actual is 23.3%, a gap of -22.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Schenectady County shows median household income runs about $79,623, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MONT PLEASANT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 40 public schools in Schenectady County (combined enrollment of about 21,555 students).

The closest other public school is PLEASANT VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MONT PLEASANT MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 24.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 16%: 679 students in 2018 compared to 569 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 37% to 26% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.