Diabetic Retinopathy is a major reason of vision impairment among diabetic patients, early and accurate diagnosis is crucial. This research focuses on developing a machine learning-based classification system to detect different stages of DR using Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF) and ensemble model. The dataset is divided into five categories: Healthy, Mild, Moderate, Proliferative and Severe DR. Performance evaluation using various metrics, including Accuracy, F1-score, RMSE and AUC-ROC, indicates that the ensemble model achieves the best results, with an accuracy of 77.66% and an AUC-ROC of 0.9015. The confusion matrices show that existing models struggle with certain misclassifications, the ensemble approach enhances overall predictive capability. Future improvements can include integrating deep learning models such as convolutional Neural Networks leveraging larger and more diverse datasets and incorporating image preprocessing techniques to enhance feature extraction. This system can help ophthalmologists to detect early and treatment planning, ultimately decrease the risk of blindness in diabetic patients.