# SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362475004361`
- **School name**: SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY
- **Location**: ROCHESTER, NY 14605
- **Address**: 625 SCIO ST
- **District**: ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3624750`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 43.16767, -77.59464
- **Phone**: (585)325-0935

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 306
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 26
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 72.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 1
  - EM Growth: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 1
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 39.8% (113 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.8% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 19.8% (53 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 18.0%
- **Black/African American**: 2.1%
- **Asian**: 64.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 10.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 4.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 64.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.8% — 37 students
- **English Learners**: 2.2% — 6 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $36,339
- **Federal share**: $9,402
- **State + local share**: $26,937
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 268
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $45,637,921
- **Federal share**: 24.4%
- **State share**: 64.3%
- **Local share**: 11.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $16,463,202

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $32,426
- **Poverty rate**: 47.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.1%
- **Unemployment**: 20.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $967
- **Foreign-born residents**: 5.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 41.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 18.3 miles (JONES CHEMICALS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 6
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 81
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.12 miles (FORMER KITCHENS BY DONAHUE 120 PORTLAND AVENUE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MCWA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 3
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.92377 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **SCHOOL OF THE ARTS** — 0.7 mi away, 40% (this school: 24%)
- **ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOL 3** — 0.7 mi away, 27% (this school: 24%)
- **SCHOOL 23-FRANCIS PARKER** — 1.5 mi away, 34% (this school: 24%)
- **SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW** — 2.1 mi away, 26% (this school: 24%)
- **SOUTHLAWN SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 55% (this school: 24%)

### math proficiency
- **SCHOOL 25-NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE** — 0.1 mi away, 22% (this school: 12.5%)
- **SCHOOL 58-WORLD OF INQUIRY SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 17.8% (this school: 12.5%)
- **SCHOOL OF THE ARTS** — 0.7 mi away, 54.25% (this school: 12.5%)
- **ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOL 3** — 0.7 mi away, 64.33% (this school: 12.5%)
- **SCHOOL 9-DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR** — 0.8 mi away, 15% (this school: 12.5%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/school-53-montessori-academy-rochester
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/school-53-montessori-academy-rochester/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/school-53-montessori-academy-rochester/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/school-53-montessori-academy-rochester/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/school-53-montessori-academy-rochester/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/school-53-montessori-academy-rochester/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/school-53-montessori-academy-rochester/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/school-53-montessori-academy-rochester/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/school-53-montessori-academy-rochester/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/school-53-montessori-academy-rochester/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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