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Enrollment
1,234
Combined
DISTRICT 580 · STATE 544
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363192004247
YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY
160 WOODLAWN AVE, YONKERS, NY 10704 · (914) 376-8540 · Westchester County
GRADES PK–12COMBINED21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,234 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 44% of New York public K-12 schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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 K-12 schools
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
85 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.3:1 · STATE 8.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
799 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 58 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 89 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 6% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 6% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 6% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 5% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 5% |
| Grade 6 | 70 | 6% |
| Grade 7 | 143 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 107 | 9% |
| Grade 9 | 76 | 6% |
| Grade 10 | 108 | 9% |
| Grade 11 | 106 | 9% |
| Grade 12 | 85 | 7% |
| Ungraded | 53 | 4% |
This year's kindergarten class (89) is 17% smaller than its 8th grade class (107).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
56.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.3pp since 2023
Math
52.6%
NY avg 57.4% . -5.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.0% | 52.6% |
| 2023-24 | 54.7% | 58.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
50.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
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 YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY
YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY's state test result (50.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY this school | 1,234 | 64.7% | 50.9% |
| MICHAEL J PETRIDES SCHOOL (THE) STATEN ISLAND | 1,423 | 67.8% | 58.6% |
| HUDSON HIGH SCHOOL HUDSON | 493 | 62.1% | 53.3% |
| JERICHO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CENTEREACH | 423 | 48.2% | 33.9% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1 BROOKLYN | 919 | 68.8% | 92.0% |
| MARGARETVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL MARGARETVILLE | 301 | 54.5% | 48.3% |
Matched among New York K-12 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 YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY ranks
Among K-12 schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.9% | #54 of 101 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.6% | #61 of 101 ▼ 10 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #47 of 101 ▼ 13 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,234 | #5 of 192 | #1 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #140 of 146 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.5% | #34 of 152 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.7% | #55 of 136 | N/A |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.1% | #56 of 95 | N/A |
Ranked against other public K-12 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
1,234
-35 (-3%) vs 2020
+66% since 1990-91, when it was 744
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 1,234 | 85.1 | 14.5:1 | 65% (799) |
| 2023-24 | 1,240 | 85.8 | 14.5:1 | 64% (796) |
| 2022-23 | 1,261 | 84.7 | 14.9:1 | 68% (856) |
| 2020-21 | 1,269 | 87 | 14.6:1 | 69% (871) |
| 2017-18 | 1,388 | 92 | 15.1:1 | 55% (769) |
| 2015-16 | 1,409 | 90 | 15.7:1 | 63% (889) |
| 2010-11 | 1,175 | 74 | 15.9:1 | 45% (524) |
| 2000-01 | 1,289 | 100 | 12.9:1 | 81% (1,040) |
| 1990-91 | 744 | 71 | 10.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY.
About YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY
YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY is a combined-grade school in YONKERS, New York, and it is part of YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Its 1,234 students are spread across pre-K through 12. The school's enrollment is 127% larger than the 544 average for combined schools in New York.
A total of 42 schools make up YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 24,376 students enrolled.
YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY is 52% Hispanic by enrollment. The remaining students are 29% White, 11% Black, 5% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Among people living in Westchester County, the Hispanic share is about 27%. YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY's diversity index is 64%, against a US figure of 70%.
A ratio of 14.5:1 comes from the school's 85.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has more students per teacher than the 8.7:1 average for combined schools in New York. The lunch program counts 65% of students at YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. It compares with 38% for public schools in Westchester County.
The allk12 Grade for YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY is C+. Compared with New York public K-12 schools, the school scored higher than 44% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY's average proficiency rate on state tests of 50.9% is within a point of the 51.2% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Across Westchester County, the median household income is $118,976, about 53% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. In all, Westchester County has 255 public schools and roughly 140,968 students.
The closest public school, PS 16 WAKEFIELD, is about 0.5 miles from YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY is 2nd of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Federal data show a 3% enrollment decrease, from 1,269 in 2020-21 to 1,234 in 2024-25.
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Westchester County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
999,677
Census ACS
Median income
$118,976
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
255
140,968 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,176 students
- YONKERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,111 students
- ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL - EARLY COLLEGE STUDIESHigh · 1,096 students
- GORTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
- SAUNDERS TRADES & TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,039 students
- RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 934 students
Other schools in YONKERS
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,176 students
- CHARTER SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCECombined · 1,127 students
- YONKERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,111 students
- ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL - EARLY COLLEGE STUDIESHigh · 1,096 students
- GORTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
- SAUNDERS TRADES & TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,039 students
Nearby schools
- PS 16 WAKEFIELD0.5 mi · 343
- MATILDA AVENUE SCHOOL (THE)0.6 mi · 222
- PS 19 JUDITH K WEISS0.6 mi · 679
- SCHOOL 210.9 mi · 328
- ROSEMARIE ANN SIRAGUSA SCHOOL0.9 mi · 500
- HAMILTON SCHOOL1.0 mi · 320
Frequently asked questions
About YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMYWhat is the total enrollment at YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY?
YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY enrolls approximately 1,234 students in grades PK-12.
What age range does YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY serve?
YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY serves students from grade PK through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY?
Approximately 14.5:1 students per teacher at YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY.
How diverse is YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY?
YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY reports a student body of 29% White, 52% Hispanic, 11% Black, 5% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY in?
YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMY is part of YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.