ANDOVER SCHOOL
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ANDOVER SCHOOL
ANDOVER SCHOOL is a multi-level school of cozy scale in ANDOVER, New York, operated by ANDOVER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, serveing 239 students in grades pre-K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 544 students per school, that is 56% below typical.
ANDOVER SCHOOL sits inside ANDOVER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
On the student-mix side, ANDOVER SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest reads as 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Allegany County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.0:1. The state averages around 8.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Allegany County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ANDOVER SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.1%; this one delivers 43.6%.
In the area at large, census data for Allegany County shows median household income runs about $62,869, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Allegany County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,589 students), ANDOVER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is WELLSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 7.4 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, ANDOVER SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 53.0%.
ANDOVER SCHOOL operates from a low-density location.
Looking at the recent track record. ANDOVER SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 25% since 2018, when it stood at 318 (now 239). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 9.5:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 today.
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