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Enrollment
505
Elementary
DISTRICT 421 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YORKSHIRE-PIONEER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360897000683
ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
315 W MAIN ST, ARCADE, NY 14009 · (716) 492-9423 · Wyoming County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL505 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
230 students
DISTRICT 51% · 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 | 49 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 93 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 95 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 20% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 20% smaller than its 4th grade class (100).
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 11% · 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
Based on grade levels within YORKSHIRE-PIONEER 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
40.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
39.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 39.0% |
| 2023-24 | 36.0% | 38.0% |
% 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
38.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 58% 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 ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (38.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 505 | 45.5% | 38.6% |
| WELLSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WELLSVILLE | 517 | 49.1% | 39.1% |
| A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL WINDSOR | 542 | 48.2% | 63.9% |
| WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WATKINS GLEN | 460 | 43.0% | 36.0% |
| A A GATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PORT BYRON | 447 | 46.5% | 43.1% |
| CANISTEO-GREENWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CANISTEO | 507 | 49.3% | 46.1% |
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 ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Wyoming County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.6% | #1,692 of 2,335 | #6 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #1,879 of 2,342 ▼ 115 | #6 of 6 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,792 of 2,343 ▼ 304 | #4 of 6 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 505 | #798 of 2,585 | #1 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.5:1 | #614 of 2,338 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 11.0% | #2,283 of 2,388 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.5% | #1,533 of 2,534 | #2 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.7% | #1,172 of 1,757 | N/A |
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
505
-10 (-2%) vs 2020
-33% since 1990-91, when it was 754
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
was 12.9:1
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 | 505 | 48.1 | 10.5:1 | 46% (230) |
| 2023-24 | 506 | 44.8 | 11.3:1 | 48% (241) |
| 2022-23 | 515 | 48.4 | 10.6:1 | 45% (231) |
| 2020-21 | 515 | 40 | 12.9:1 | 46% (237) |
| 2017-18 | 559 | 45.8 | 12.2:1 | 48% (269) |
| 2015-16 | 553 | 42 | 13.2:1 | 49% (270) |
| 2010-11 | 581 | 38 | 15.3:1 | 40% (230) |
| 2000-01 | 642 | 46 | 14.0:1 | 36% (228) |
| 1990-91 | 754 | 44 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school in ARCADE, New York. It enrolled 505 students in pre-K through 4 for the 2024-25 school year.
YORKSHIRE-PIONEER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT is made up of 4 schools with 2,137 students in all.
ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls a student body that is 94% White. It is also 3% multiracial and 2% Hispanic. ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 11%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The count of teachers at ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 48.1 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 10.5:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, higher than at this school. Around 46% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That is close to the 43% average for public schools in Wyoming County.
After accounting for student poverty, ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests of 38.6% is 19.7 points below the 58.2% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
County data help place the school in context: in Wyoming County, median household income is about $69,110, about 18% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the 14 public schools in Wyoming County.
The shortest distance from ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to another public school is about 2.2 miles, to PIONEER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. The five-mile area around ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds 3 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 56.6%, higher than ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 38.6%.
The school is in rural territory some distance from an urban area, according to its NCES locale (Rural: Distant).
The school's size has been steady, with 515 students in 2020-21 and 505 in 2024-25. The number of students per teacher fell from 12.9 to 10.5 over 4 years.
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Wyoming County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
39,753
Census ACS
Median income
$69,110
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
14
4,159 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in YORKSHIRE-PIONEER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PIONEER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 659 students
- PIONEER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 636 students
- DELEVAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 337 students
Nearby schools
- PIONEER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.2 mi · 636
- PIONEER MIDDLE SCHOOL2.4 mi · 659
- DELEVAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.9 mi · 337
- HOLLAND HIGH SCHOOL9.6 mi · 216
- HAROLD O BRUMSTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL9.7 mi · 303
- HOLLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL10.4 mi · 218
Frequently asked questions
About ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 505 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 10.5:1 (48 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 94% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
ARCADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by YORKSHIRE-PIONEER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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