ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the cozy elementary schools in ALEXANDRIA BAY, New York, run under ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 243 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 45% smaller than the state mean of about 443.
ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 467 students; ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.
In terms of who attends, ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (94%) are White; the rest breaks down as 2% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, On paper, ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.0:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jefferson County (around 49%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
With demographic context factored in, ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.2%; this one delivers 52.5%.
In the broader community, census data for Jefferson County shows median household earnings sit near $66,301, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 39 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 16,789 students).
The closest other public school is ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. On composite proficiency, ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 59.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ALEXANDRIA CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has fell 16%, going from 290 students in 2018 to 243 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 in 2025.
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