Enrollment
343
Elementary
DISTRICT 368 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUFFERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362832003815
MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL
50 MONTEBELLO RD, SUFFERN, NY 10901 · (845) 357-4466 · Rockland County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL343 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 36% of New York public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
8.7:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
146 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 122 | 36% |
| Grade 4 | 116 | 34% |
| Grade 5 | 104 | 30% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
Based on grade levels within SUFFERN 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
53.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
53.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +9.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.0% | 53.0% |
| 2023-24 | 39.0% | 44.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
46.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
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 MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL
MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL's state test result (46.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL this school | 343 | 42.6% | 46.3% |
| CENTRAL VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CENTRAL VALLEY | 375 | 46.9% | 46.8% |
| RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PATCHOGUE | 314 | 40.4% | 39.8% |
| CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHESTER | 393 | 40.5% | 50.5% |
| SAPPHIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HARRIMAN | 324 | 36.4% | N/A |
| OXHEAD ROAD SCHOOL CENTEREACH | 383 | 45.7% | 44.8% |
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 MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Rockland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.3% | #1,329 of 2,335 | #19 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,342 of 2,342 ▲ 195 | #19 of 33 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,233 of 2,343 ▲ 121 | #17 of 33 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 343 | #1,711 of 2,585 | #27 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.7:1 | #129 of 2,338 | #1 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.0% | #318 of 2,388 | #10 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.6% | #1,619 of 2,534 | #14 of 36 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.0% | #1,415 of 1,757 | #12 of 18 |
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
343
+7 (+2%) vs 2020
-6% since 1990-91, when it was 366
Student : Teacher
8.7:1
was 9.3:1
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 | 343 | 39.6 | 8.7:1 | 43% (146) |
| 2023-24 | 325 | 35.2 | 9.2:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 337 | 36.2 | 9.3:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 336 | 36 | 9.3:1 | 33% (112) |
| 2017-18 | 365 | 31 | 11.8:1 | 37% (134) |
| 2015-16 | 368 | 32 | 11.5:1 | 32% (117) |
| 2010-11 | 397 | 34 | 11.7:1 | 15% (58) |
| 2000-01 | 551 | 37 | 14.9:1 | 5% (27) |
| 1990-91 | 366 | 24 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL.
About MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL
MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL is a small elementary school. Its address is in SUFFERN, New York. In all, 343 students attend the school in grades 3 through 5. That puts enrollment 23% below the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York.
SUFFERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (7 schools, 4,170 students) runs MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL.
About 45% of students at MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL are Hispanic, the largest single group. The rest of enrollment is 32% White, 11% Black, 8% Asian, and 4% multiracial. Among all residents of Rockland County, the Hispanic share is about 21%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 68%.
There are 39.6 full-time-equivalent teachers at MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL, giving a ratio of 8.7:1. Elementary schools in New York have an average ratio of 12.8:1. By family income, 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among New York public elementary schools, MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL outscored 36%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL is 13.1 points below its prediction. Actual: 46.3%. Predicted: 59.3%.
In Rockland County, median household income comes to about $109,959, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county's public schools total 66, with about 41,335 students.
MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.1 miles away. The five-mile area around MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 55.2% on proficiency, and MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL is below that at 46.3%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
In 2020-21, MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL enrolled 336; in 2024-25, 343.
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Rockland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
341,883
Census ACS
Median income
$109,959
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
66
41,335 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SUFFERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SUFFERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,450 students
- SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 880 students
- RICHARD P CONNOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 437 students
- CHERRY LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 413 students
- VIOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 325 students
- SLOATSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 322 students
Other schools in SUFFERN
- SUFFERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,450 students
- SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 880 students
- POMONA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 689 students
- LIME KILN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 584 students
- RICHARD P CONNOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 437 students
- CHERRY LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 413 students
Nearby schools
- SUFFERN MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 880
- SUFFERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,450
- RICHARD P CONNOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 437
- VIOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 325
- CHERRY LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 413
- Betsy Ross Elementary2.2 mi · 238
Frequently asked questions
About MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOLHow large is MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL?
MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL enrolls approximately 343 students in grades 03-05.
What age range does MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL serve?
MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL serves students from grade 03 through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL?
Approximately 8.7:1 students per teacher at MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL.
How diverse is MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL?
MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL reports a student body of 32% White, 45% Hispanic, 11% Black, 8% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL in?
MONTEBELLO ROAD SCHOOL is part of SUFFERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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