MONTGOMERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MONTGOMERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school of mid-sized scale in MONTGOMERY, New York, operated by VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (MONTGOMERY), instructing 539 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so MONTGOMERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 22% bigger than that benchmark.

Within VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (MONTGOMERY), which oversees 6 schools and 4,152 students, MONTGOMERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, MONTGOMERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 59%. Beyond that, the school reports 29% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Orange County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, On paper, MONTGOMERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MONTGOMERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.8%, the actual is 53.3%, a residual of -11.5 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Orange County put the typical household earns roughly $97,178 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. MONTGOMERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 82 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students).

VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MONTGOMERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.1%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MONTGOMERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has remained close to its prior level, going from 530 students in 2018 to 539 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 65% to 59% across the same window.

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