ROBERT J KAISER MIDDLE SCHOOL

ROBERT J KAISER MIDDLE SCHOOL, an average-sized middle school in MONTICELLO, New York, run under MONTICELLO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, educates 587 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Within MONTICELLO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 2,695 students, ROBERT J KAISER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, ROBERT J KAISER MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 41%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 35% White, 13% Black, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Sullivan County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROBERT J KAISER MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 35.3%, a residual of -13.2 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Sullivan County indicate median household income runs about $72,382, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Sullivan County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,164 students), ROBERT J KAISER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

MONTICELLO HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROBERT J KAISER MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 30.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Looking at the recent track record. ROBERT J KAISER MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 16% since 2018, when it stood at 700 (now 587). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 28% to 41%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 in 2025.

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