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Montrose Early Childhood Center

South Orange-Maplewood · Essex County · Early childhood center
Grades PK
Page updated · data years vary by section

At a glance

What changed?

These measures follow the same rule on every school page, not a ranking of this school’s biggest changes. Each row names its evidence dates; trend rows do not describe every year in between.

These are descriptive measures from statewide NJDOE datasets, not a quality rating or an explanation of cause. Proficiency, attendance, and graduation figures use All Students; subgroup patterns may differ. The attendance-action row follows NJDOE’s published school field and does not prove current compliance.

Enrollment over time

In 2025-26 it enrolled 100 students. That is 45 more than in 2015-16 (55) — the school has grown. It peaked at 145 in 2021-22.

students 03875112150 1001998200320082013201820232025

Total students enrolled each fall. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

What the school looks like

The largest group in both 2015-16 and 2025-26 was White students — 45% then, 44% now.

% of students 050100race categories: 5 → 716%13%23%44%1998200320082013201820232025
WhiteBlackHispanicAsianTwo or moreNative Am.

Each group’s share of enrollment over time, or its head count — toggle above. New Jersey expanded race and ethnicity reporting from five to seven categories in 2006-07 (dashed line), so “two or more races” appears only after; Asian here includes Pacific Islander. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

How much the mix changed

Between 2021-22 and 2025-26 the makeup of this school shifted noticeably.

That’s a smaller shift than 67% of Essex County early-childhood centers. The biggest moves, in percentage points:
Black +7.8·White −5.7·Asian −1.5

The index is half the sum of every group’s change in share, on a 0–100 scale (how it works). It is computed from the same counts as the makeup chart above — source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment. Compare any two years in the explorer →

Free or reduced-price lunch

In 2025-26, 15% of students were certified for free or reduced-price lunch.

% certified 0153015.2%15%201520202025
This schooldistrict overall

Share of students certified for free or reduced-price meals, through a household application or an automatic match. The lighter line shows the district overall, for comparison. Some districts serve free meals to every student under the Community Eligibility Provision. Those districts often stop collecting household income forms, so their reported share can run below the number of low-income students they enroll. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

NCES school lunch record

In 2024-25, NCES reported 14 students in its free/reduced-price lunch total and 98 in membership: 14.3% within that edition.

Universe break. In 2024-25, the NCES lunch file contains 2,461 New Jersey schools while the membership file contains 2,552; 91 membership schools have no lunch row. A percentage below exists only where both files report the same school-year.

YearLunch totalMembershipWithin-year shareSource
2015-16125521.8%Wide Provisional
Source format changes here: wide school rows above; long category rows below.
2016-17189518.9%Long Provisional
2017-181512711.8%Long Provisional
2018-191613711.7%Long Provisional
2019-202013315.0%Long Provisional
2020-211211210.7%Long Provisional
2021-2231452.1%Long Provisional
2022-2341004.0%Long Provisional
2023-248968.3%Long Final
2024-25149814.3%Long Final

Direct certification. NCES publishes no numeric direct-certification count for a New Jersey school in this release. The wide editions do not contain the field; the later New Jersey rows are not reported or suppressed. Those states are not zero.

This is the federal NCES Common Core of Data record, separate from the NJDOE Fall Enrollment chart above. NCES says the lunch counts are perturbed for disclosure protection, so a school count is not exact. Files through 2022–23 are publisher-marked provisional; the two newest editions are final. Source, row-state rules, and coverage: NCES CCD school lunch and membership.

Profile built from New Jersey Department of Education Fall Enrollment data, 1998-99 through 2025-26. How this data works → The NCES school lunch record is a separate federal source. How the NCES record works →