Enrollment
378
Elementary
DISTRICT 317 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360246000026
ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES
108 WHITEHALL RD, ALBANY, NY 12209 · (518) 475-6575 · Albany County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL378 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% of New York public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
13.2:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
208 students
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 59 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 15 | 4% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (64).
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
70.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
74.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 70 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 74.0% |
| 2023-24 | 64.0% | 74.0% |
% 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
65.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 →
Schools most like ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES
ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES's state test result (65.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES this school | 378 | 55.0% | 65.3% |
| LEMOYNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 338 | 55.6% | 27.9% |
| ELMWOOD VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL DAYS PARK BUFFALO | 429 | 55.2% | 55.2% |
| SCHOOL 23-FRANCIS PARKER ROCHESTER | 313 | 58.5% | 37.7% |
| EAGLE POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALBANY | 279 | 50.2% | 48.7% |
| PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALBANY | 363 | 68.0% | 32.2% |
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 ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Albany County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.3% | #553 of 2,335 | #15 of 46 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #557 of 2,342 ▼ 111 | #14 of 46 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #526 of 2,343 ▼ 127 | #12 of 46 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 378 | #1,495 of 2,585 | #22 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #1,677 of 2,338 | #29 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.5% | #55 of 2,388 | #5 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.0% | #1,270 of 2,534 | #16 of 47 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.0% | #431 of 1,757 | #4 of 31 |
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
378
-68 (-15%) vs 2020
-3% since 1990-91, when it was 389
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 378 | 28.7 | 13.2:1 | 55% (208) |
| 2023-24 | 332 | 30.8 | 10.8:1 | 55% (183) |
| 2022-23 | 356 | 30 | 11.9:1 | 62% (222) |
| 2020-21 | 446 | 28 | 15.9:1 | 60% (269) |
| 2017-18 | 504 | 34 | 14.8:1 | 45% (225) |
| 2015-16 | 518 | 26 | 19.9:1 | 47% (246) |
| 2010-11 | 562 | 38 | 14.8:1 | 59% (334) |
| 2000-01 | 669 | 46 | 14.5:1 | 48% (323) |
| 1990-91 | 389 | 26 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES.
About ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES
ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES is a public elementary school run by ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in ALBANY, New York. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 378 students enrolled.
Federal data list 16 schools in ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 8,509 students enrolled.
Enrollment at ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES is mixed, with Black students the largest group at 39%. Beyond that, enrollment is 20% Hispanic, 20% White, 11% multiracial, and 10% Asian. In Albany County overall, about 12% of residents are Black. By the diversity index, ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES comes in at 74%.
The count of teachers at ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES is 28.7 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 13.2:1. Elementary schools in New York average about 12.8:1, a similar figure. Around 55% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Albany County is 45%.
ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 79% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 65.3%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 54.8%.
Among Albany County residents, median household income is about $85,333, about 46% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES is one of 75 public schools in Albany County, which together enroll about 39,946 students.
The shortest distance from ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES to another public school is about 0.3 miles, to STEPHEN AND HARRIET MYERS MIDDLE SCHOOL. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. By average proficiency, ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES is 1st among 9 schools close by.
Locale: City: Mid-size. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count declined from 446 to 378. Federal data show the ratio falling from 15.9:1 to 13.2:1.
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Albany County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
317,018
Census ACS
Median income
$85,333
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
75
39,946 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ALBANY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,937 students
- WILLIAM S HACKETT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 615 students
- NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 588 students
- STEPHEN AND HARRIET MYERS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 570 students
- NEW SCOTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 451 students
- GIFFEN MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 387 students
Other schools in ALBANY
- ALBANY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,937 students
- COLONIE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,640 students
- SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 873 students
- KIPP TECH VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 840 students
- KIPP ALBANY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 688 students
- LISHA KILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 640 students
Nearby schools
- STEPHEN AND HARRIET MYERS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 570
- DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 276
- ALBANY LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS0.7 mi · 383
- NEW SCOTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 451
- GREEN TECH HIGH CHARTER SCHOOL1.0 mi · 450
- THOMAS S O'BRIEN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY1.1 mi · 262
Frequently asked questions
About ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIESHow many students attend ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES?
ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES enrolls approximately 378 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES serve?
ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES?
Approximately 13.2:1 students per teacher at ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES.
How diverse is ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES?
ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES reports a student body of 20% White, 20% Hispanic, 39% Black, 10% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES?
ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES is overseen by ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Albany County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.