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Alumni: what's one memory from A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
542
Elementary
DISTRICT 366 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WINDSOR CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360273000048
A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
213 MAIN ST, WINDSOR, NY 13865 · (607) 655-8247 · Broome County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL542 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of New York public elementary 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
261 students
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 35 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 26 | 5% |
| Grade 1 | 22 | 4% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 27 | 5% |
| Grade 4 | 29 | 5% |
| Grade 5 | 30 | 6% |
| Grade 6 | 108 | 20% |
| Grade 7 | 108 | 20% |
| Grade 8 | 115 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (26) is 77% smaller than its 8th grade class (115).
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 17% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL→WINDSOR CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within WINDSOR CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
59.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
73.6%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.0% | 73.6% |
| 2023-24 | 56.0% | 69.9% |
% 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
63.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 →
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A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (63.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 542 | 48.2% | 63.9% |
| WELLSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WELLSVILLE | 517 | 49.1% | 39.1% |
| SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHERBURNE | 589 | 48.4% | 39.1% |
| HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HERKIMER | 533 | 50.5% | 31.4% |
| ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ARCADE | 505 | 45.5% | 38.6% |
| WOLCOTT STREET SCHOOL LE ROY | 579 | 47.3% | 54.4% |
Matched among New York elementary 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 A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Broome County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.9% | #603 of 2,335 | #3 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.6% | #574 of 2,342 ▲ 5 | #3 of 26 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #981 of 2,343 ▼ 330 | #7 of 26 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 542 | #662 of 2,585 | #5 of 28 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.6:1 | #657 of 2,338 | #8 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.6% | #2,171 of 2,388 | #24 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.2% | #1,468 of 2,534 | #16 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.5% | #1,310 of 1,757 | #15 of 19 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
542
-3 (-1%) vs 2020
-32% since 2000-01, when it was 795
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
was 9.2:1
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 | 542 | 51 | 10.6:1 | 48% (261) |
| 2023-24 | 535 | 51.2 | 10.5:1 | 49% (262) |
| 2022-23 | 541 | 54.3 | 10.0:1 | 49% (263) |
| 2020-21 | 545 | 59 | 9.2:1 | 52% (285) |
| 2017-18 | 586 | 55 | 10.7:1 | 53% (308) |
| 2015-16 | 558 | 57 | 9.8:1 | 49% (271) |
| 2010-11 | 696 | 55 | 12.7:1 | 42% (293) |
| 2000-01 | 795 | 53 | 15.0:1 | 32% (258) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is classified as an elementary school. It is located in WINDSOR, New York. It teaches 542 students in pre-K through 8. That is 22% bigger than the average of about 443 students for elementary schools in New York.
A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL sits within WINDSOR CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 4 schools and 1,536 students.
At A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL, 91% of students are White. The remaining students are 4% multiracial and 4% Hispanic. Census figures show Broome County is about 80% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 17%.
A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 10.6:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 48% at A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL.
Among New York public elementary schools, A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 75%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
In New York, A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 63.9% actual against a predicted 57.3%.
In Broome County, home to about 197,378 people, median household income comes to about $62,616, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Broome County's 52 public schools enroll about 24,594 students and include A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL.
A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is WINDSOR CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, about 1.2 miles away. Within ten miles of A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is 4th of 9 on proficiency.
The NCES locale for A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is Rural: Distant, which covers schools in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Enrollment at A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL was 545 in 2020-21 and 542 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 9.2:1 to 10.6:1.
The allk12 page for A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL lets the school community talk about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. You can also rate the school on this page.
Broome County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
197,378
Census ACS
Median income
$62,616
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
52
24,594 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WINDSOR CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WINDSOR CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 437 students
- FLOYD BELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 280 students
- C R WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 277 students
Other schools in WINDSOR
- WINDSOR CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 437 students
- C R WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 277 students
Nearby schools
- WINDSOR CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 437
- W A OLMSTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL6.8 mi · 323
- HARPURSVILLE JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL6.9 mi · 253
- C R WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL6.9 mi · 277
- FLOYD BELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL8.4 mi · 280
- F P DONNELLY SCHOOL8.8 mi · 306
Frequently asked questions
About A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 542 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 10.6:1 (51 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 91% White, 4% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by WINDSOR CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Broome County.
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