Enrollment
301
Elementary
DISTRICT 317 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360246000015
ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1 ARBOR DR, ALBANY, NY 12207 · (518) 475-6625 · Albany County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL301 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 6% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
10.7:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
259 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 | 60 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 36 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 40 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 13 | 4% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 36% larger than its 5th grade class (44).
Student demographics
58%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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
24.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
28.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 are down about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.0% | 28.0% |
| 2023-24 | 18.0% | 31.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
23.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 43% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (23.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 301 | 86.0% | 23.2% |
| PS 36 SAINT ALBANS SCHOOL SAINT ALBANS | 277 | 85.6% | 34.4% |
| PS 181 BROOKFIELD SPRINGFIELD GARDENS | 340 | 88.5% | 67.6% |
| BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ALBANY | 316 | 81.0% | 55.1% |
| PS 251 PAERDEGAT BROOKLYN | 329 | 86.9% | 30.7% |
| SCHOOL 4-GEORGE MATHER FORBES ROCHESTER | 265 | 87.2% | 8.9% |
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 ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Albany County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.2% | #2,186 of 2,335 | #43 of 46 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #2,135 of 2,342 ▼ 155 | #43 of 46 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #2,225 of 2,343 ▼ 17 | #43 of 46 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 301 | #1,987 of 2,585 | #35 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #711 of 2,338 | #9 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.0% | #806 of 2,388 | #27 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.0% | #565 of 2,534 | #4 of 47 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.1% | #1,529 of 1,757 | #25 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
301
+19 (+7%) vs 2020
-63% since 1990-91, when it was 815
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 301 | 28 | 10.7:1 | 86% (259) |
| 2023-24 | 277 | 27.8 | 10.0:1 | 83% (230) |
| 2022-23 | 265 | 26.2 | 10.1:1 | 87% (230) |
| 2020-21 | 282 | 24 | 11.8:1 | 86% (242) |
| 2017-18 | 314 | 23 | 13.7:1 | 68% (212) |
| 2015-16 | 362 | 26 | 13.9:1 | 82% (298) |
| 2010-11 | 414 | 27 | 15.3:1 | 84% (347) |
| 2000-01 | 659 | 47 | 14.0:1 | 100% (656) |
| 1990-91 | 815 | 40 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in ALBANY, New York, and is classified as an elementary school. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 301 students on the rolls. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 32% below that mark.
ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belongs to ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district of 16 schools and 8,509 students.
More than half of the students at ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Black (61%). The next largest groups are 20% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% White, and 6% multiracial. In Albany County overall, about 12% of residents are Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 58%.
With 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 10.7:1. Elementary schools in New York have an average ratio of 12.8:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 86% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Albany County report 45%.
On the allk12 Grade, ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at D, ahead of 6% of New York public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results, 23.2%, is 20.1 points below the 43.4% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the bottom 10% of New York schools.
In Albany County, home to about 317,018 people, the median household earns about $85,333 a year, roughly 46% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. There are 75 public schools in the county, enrolling about 39,946, ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.4 miles from DUAL LANGUAGE PROGRAM AT ALBANY INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on average proficiency.
Locale: City: Mid-size. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 7% gain, from 282 to 301. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 11.8:1 in 2020-21 to 10.7:1 in 2024-25.
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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
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- 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
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- 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
- DUAL LANGUAGE PROGRAM AT ALBANY INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY0.4 mi · 213
- KIPP TECH VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL0.6 mi · 840
- SHERIDAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY0.8 mi · 284
- NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 588
- BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BOYS1.0 mi · 240
- BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS1.1 mi · 316
Frequently asked questions
About ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 301 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 10.7:1 (28 FTE teachers).
How diverse is ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 6% White, 20% Hispanic, 61% Black, 7% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
ARBOR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.