Enrollment
306
Elementary
DISTRICT 438 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362475004361
SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY
353 CONGRESS AVE, ROCHESTER, NY 14619 · (585) 325-0935 · Monroe County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL306 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 4% 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
11.4:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
223 students
DISTRICT 84% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 84 | 27% |
| Kindergarten | 31 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 34 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 39 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 37 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 33 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 29 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 19 | 6% |
This year's kindergarten class (31) is 63% larger than its 6th grade class (19).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
24.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
19.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.0% | 19.0% |
| 2023-24 | 24.0% | 11.0% |
% 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
22.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-25.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 48% 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 SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY
SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY's state test result (22.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY this school | 306 | 72.9% | 22.9% |
| GRIMES SCHOOL MOUNT VERNON | 330 | 71.8% | 34.4% |
| PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON BROOKLYN | 369 | 72.4% | 66.0% |
| PS 195 WILLIAM HABERLE ROSEDALE | 321 | 74.5% | 39.6% |
| MEACHEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 343 | 78.1% | 21.3% |
| PS 132 RALPH BUNCHE SPRINGFIELD GARDENS | 283 | 71.0% | 65.0% |
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 SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Monroe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.9% | #2,195 of 2,335 | #72 of 97 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #2,268 of 2,342 ▲ 49 | #76 of 97 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #2,238 of 2,343 ▼ 176 | #74 of 97 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 306 | #1,956 of 2,585 | #89 of 106 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #1,003 of 2,338 | #50 of 99 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.4% | #1,131 of 2,388 | #55 of 99 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.9% | #930 of 2,534 | #35 of 106 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.6% | #1,681 of 1,757 | #55 of 58 |
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
306
+22 (+8%) vs 2020
+419% since 2000-01, when it was 59
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 306 | 26.9 | 11.4:1 | 73% (223) |
| 2023-24 | 268 | 23.5 | 11.4:1 | 65% (174) |
| 2022-23 | 255 | 22.1 | 11.5:1 | 78% (198) |
| 2020-21 | 284 | 24 | 11.8:1 | 74% (210) |
| 2017-18 | 311 | 22 | 14.1:1 | 74% (231) |
| 2015-16 | 276 | 17 | 16.2:1 | 78% (214) |
| 2010-11 | 172 | 15 | 11.5:1 | 67% (116) |
| 2000-01 | 59 | 4 | 14.8:1 | 58% (34) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY.
About SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY
As a small elementary school, SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY serves students in ROCHESTER, New York. It had 306 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 6. Elementary schools in New York average about 443 students, which makes this school 31% below average.
ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT includes 51 schools. Together they enroll 25,949 students.
About 66% of the student body at SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY is Black. Enrollment also includes 18% Hispanic, 7% White, 6% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Among people living in Monroe County, the Black share is about 14%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 52%.
The school's 26.9 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.4:1. Elementary schools in New York have an average ratio of 12.8:1. At SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY, 73% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Public schools in Monroe County average 50%.
On the allk12 Grade, SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY lands at F, ahead of 4% of New York public elementary schools.
Test results at SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY are 25.3 points below what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate across its state test results is 22.9%, compared with a predicted 48.2%, which ranks in the bottom 10% in New York.
Looking at the county, Monroe County, the median household earns about $76,382 a year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY, Monroe County has 186 public schools.
DR WALTER COOPER ACADEMY is the nearest public school to SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY, less than a tenth of a mile away. Within five miles of SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY, there are at least 8 other public schools. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY ranks 6th on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY is City: Mid-size, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school's enrollment rose 8% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Monroe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
753,753
Census ACS
Median income
$76,382
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
186
106,108 students
Quick facts
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- PADILLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
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- FRANKLIN UPPER SCHOOLHigh · 1,006 students
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- SCHOOL 58-WORLD OF INQUIRY SCHOOLCombined · 896 students
Other schools in ROCHESTER
- ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOL 1Combined · 1,405 students
- EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,362 students
- PADILLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,164 students
- IRONDEQUOIT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,160 students
- GATES CHILI HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,134 students
Nearby schools
- DR WALTER COOPER ACADEMY0.0 mi · 311
- ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOL 10.4 mi · 1,405
- ROCHESTER ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.6 mi · 829
- DR DAVID AND RUTH ANDERSON ACADEMY- SCHOOL 160.8 mi · 430
- JOSEPH C WILSON MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 868
- SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD1.3 mi · 353
Frequently asked questions
About SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMYHow large is SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY?
SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY enrolls approximately 306 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY serve?
SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY is approximately 11.4:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY?
Student demographics at SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY are roughly 7% White, 18% Hispanic, 66% Black, 3% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY in?
SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY is part of ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.