# BEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361968001798`
- **School name**: BEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: MONTGOMERY, NY 12549
- **Address**: 946 STATE RT 17K
- **District**: VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (MONTGOMERY) (LEAID `3619680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 41.52675, -74.18912
- **Phone**: (845)457-2400

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 497
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 43
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 42.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 3
  - EM Growth: 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 10.7% (48 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.2% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 12.2% (61 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**: 31.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 9.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 52.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 49.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.8% — 94 students
- **English Learners**: 1.0% — 5 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 21 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $32,470
- **Federal share**: $2,019
- **State + local share**: $30,451
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 500
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $29,431,879
- **Federal share**: 6.6%
- **State share**: 38.4%
- **Local share**: 55.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $18,001,219

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $96,372
- **Poverty rate**: 16.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 31.2%
- **Unemployment**: 1.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,538
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.2 miles (NEPERA CHEMICAL CO INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 10
- **Nearest brownfield**: 9.16 miles (DIAMOND CANDLE FACTORY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MONTGOMERY VILLAGE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.78491 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 39% (this school: 36%)
- **EAST COLDENHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.4 mi away, 50% (this school: 36%)
- **LITTLE BRITAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 36%)
- **JOHN G BORDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 5.3 mi away, 45% (this school: 36%)
- **MEADOW HILL SCHOOL** — 5.5 mi away, 40% (this school: 36%)

### math proficiency
- **VALLEY CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 71.33% (this school: 57%)
- **MONTGOMERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 60% (this school: 57%)
- **EAST COLDENHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.4 mi away, 59% (this school: 57%)
- **LITTLE BRITAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.2 mi away, 62% (this school: 57%)
- **JOHN G BORDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 5.3 mi away, 76% (this school: 57%)

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