POMONA MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 101 POMONA RD, in SUFFERN, New York, POMONA MIDDLE SCHOOL is a medium-sized middle-grades school that works with 689 students (grades 7 through 8), run under EAST RAMAPO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (SPRING VALLEY). That puts it 30% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

EAST RAMAPO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (SPRING VALLEY) runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 10,424 students. POMONA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, POMONA MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 15% Black. By comparison, Rockland County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, POMONA MIDDLE SCHOOL has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting POMONA MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 86% of students at POMONA MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Rockland County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, POMONA MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.5%; this one delivers 33.2%.

Across the wider county, Rockland County reports that median household income runs about $109,959, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. POMONA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 66 public schools in Rockland County (combined enrollment of about 41,335 students).

SUMMIT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), POMONA MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 28.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 77%: 389 students in 2018 compared to 689 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 66% to 83% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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