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What's the one class at MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
689
Elementary
DISTRICT 507 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HUDSON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361494001248
MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
102 HARRY HOWARD AVE, HUDSON, NY 12534 · (518) 828-4350 · Columbia County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL689 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 6% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
10.3:1
67 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
437 students
DISTRICT 65% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 52 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 108 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 100 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 113 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 103 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 111 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 14% |
| Ungraded | 5 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (108) is 11% larger than its 5th grade class (97).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→HUDSON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within HUDSON CITY 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
33.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
30.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 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 down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.0% | 30.0% |
| 2023-24 | 22.0% | 31.0% |
% 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
27.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-24.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 52% 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 MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (27.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 689 | 63.4% | 27.6% |
| LONGRIDGE SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 754 | 63.5% | 32.3% |
| WATERVLIET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WATERVLIET | 670 | 72.1% | 29.9% |
| PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS BRONX | 679 | 62.6% | 63.9% |
| EAST MAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PORT JERVIS | 702 | 67.8% | 42.0% |
| JOHNSON CITY ELEMENTARY/PRIMARY SCHOOL JOHNSON CITY | 560 | 69.3% | N/A |
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 MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Columbia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.6% | #2,091 of 2,335 | #6 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.0% | #2,099 of 2,342 ▼ 114 | #6 of 6 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #2,045 of 2,343 ▲ 62 | #6 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 689 | #287 of 2,585 | #1 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #530 of 2,338 | #3 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.8% | #111 of 2,388 | #1 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.4% | #1,097 of 2,534 | #1 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +21.5% | #131 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
689
-88 (-11%) vs 2020
+22% since 1990-91, when it was 566
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
was 9.8:1
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 | 689 | 67.2 | 10.3:1 | 63% (437) |
| 2023-24 | 719 | 63.2 | 11.4:1 | 62% (443) |
| 2022-23 | 723 | 66.8 | 10.8:1 | 65% (470) |
| 2020-21 | 777 | 79 | 9.8:1 | 67% (519) |
| 2017-18 | 567 | 52 | 10.9:1 | 73% (415) |
| 2015-16 | 543 | 43 | 12.6:1 | 71% (384) |
| 2010-11 | 582 | 55 | 10.6:1 | 66% (385) |
| 2000-01 | 809 | 63 | 12.8:1 | 48% (389) |
| 1990-91 | 566 | 40 | 14.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the name of a large elementary school in HUDSON, New York. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 689 students. It has 56% more students than the average for elementary schools in New York (about 443).
The district for MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is HUDSON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 3 schools and 1,522 students.
Of every 100 students at MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 42 are White, the largest group. Smaller groups are 24% Hispanic, 15% Black, 12% multiracial, and 7% Asian. For comparison, the population of Columbia County is roughly 83% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 73, compared with 70 nationally.
For every teacher at MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are about 10.3 students; the school has 67.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York, this school's ratio is lower. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 63%. Among public schools in Columbia County, the average eligibility rate is 48%.
MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 6% of New York public elementary schools.
A school in New York with MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 51.7%. MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 27.6%.
For the population of Columbia County, median household income comes to about $81,528, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Columbia County's 17 public schools enroll about 6,006 students and include MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
HUDSON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.4 miles from MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds 4 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 46.6%, higher than MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 27.6%.
NCES lists the school's locale as Town: Distant. That means it sits in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 11%, from 777 to 689.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Columbia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
61,100
Census ACS
Median income
$81,528
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
17
6,006 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HUDSON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HUDSON HIGH SCHOOLCombined · 493 students
- HUDSON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 340 students
Other schools in HUDSON
- HUDSON HIGH SCHOOLCombined · 493 students
- HUDSON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 340 students
Nearby schools
- HUDSON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 340
- HUDSON HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 493
- EDWARD J ARTHUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 177
- BROOKWOOD SECURE CENTER FOR YOUTH3.3 mi · 61
- CATSKILL MIDDLE SCHOOL5.3 mi · 264
- CATSKILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL5.3 mi · 394
Frequently asked questions
About MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 689 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.3:1 students per teacher at MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 42% White, 24% Hispanic, 15% Black, 7% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by HUDSON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.