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What's something ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
496
Elementary
DISTRICT 421 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ARLINGTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360327000086
ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL
601 DUTCHESS TURNPIKE, POUGHKEEPSIE, NY 12603 · (845) 486-4960 · Dutchess County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL496 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 27% of New York public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
10.5:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
208 students
DISTRICT 30% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 82 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 102 | 21% |
| Ungraded | 9 | 2% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (102).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
47.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
41.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.0% | 41.0% |
| 2023-24 | 40.0% | 40.0% |
% 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
42.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL
ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL's state test result (42.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL this school | 496 | 41.9% | 42.6% |
| BEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MONTGOMERY | 497 | 42.3% | 48.3% |
| PS 132 CONSELYEA SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 564 | 45.6% | 77.8% |
| SOUTH COUNTRY SCHOOL BAY SHORE | 496 | 43.1% | 38.8% |
| EAST VILLAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) NEW YORK | 477 | 45.1% | 71.3% |
| CIRCLEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CIRCLEVILLE | 484 | 47.7% | 39.1% |
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 ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Dutchess County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.6% | #1,494 of 2,335 | #27 of 36 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #1,806 of 2,342 ▼ 131 | #30 of 36 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #1,457 of 2,343 ▼ 177 | #25 of 36 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 496 | #845 of 2,585 | #8 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.5:1 | #617 of 2,338 | #9 of 42 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.0% | #224 of 2,388 | #3 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.9% | #1,641 of 2,534 | #16 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +15.6% | #184 of 606 | #3 of 16 |
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
496
-5 (-1%) vs 2020
-5% since 1990-91, when it was 523
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
was 9.8:1
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 | 496 | 47.2 | 10.5:1 | 42% (208) |
| 2023-24 | 496 | 48.2 | 10.3:1 | 44% (220) |
| 2022-23 | 532 | 50.7 | 10.5:1 | 41% (219) |
| 2020-21 | 501 | 51 | 9.8:1 | 41% (203) |
| 2017-18 | 429 | 32 | 13.4:1 | 41% (175) |
| 2015-16 | 422 | 31 | 13.6:1 | 41% (173) |
| 2010-11 | 475 | 37 | 12.8:1 | 35% (164) |
| 2000-01 | 458 | 30 | 15.3:1 | 26% (119) |
| 1990-91 | 523 | 26 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL.
About ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL
ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school for students in POUGHKEEPSIE, New York. A total of 496 students attend the school, which covers kindergarten through 5.
A total of 11 schools make up ARLINGTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 7,644 students enrolled.
ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL has no majority group; White students are the largest, at 39%. Smaller groups are 34% Hispanic, 18% Black, 5% multiracial, and 4% Asian. County-wide, 69% of Dutchess County residents are White. The school's diversity index is 70%, meaning two students picked at random have a 70% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 10.5:1, with 47.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is lower than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Lunch subsidy eligibility at ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL is 42%. For comparison, public schools in Dutchess County average 40%.
The allk12 Grade for ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL is C. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 27% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL's average proficiency rate on state tests of 42.6% is 16.9 points below the 59.6% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Census Bureau estimates for Dutchess County show that the median household income is $99,478, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. There are 76 public schools in Dutchess County, enrolling about 36,885 students in all.
POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles away. Within five miles of ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL is ahead of the 29.7% nearby average, ranking 2nd of 7.
Federal data place ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show 501 students in 2020-21 and 496 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%.
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Dutchess County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
298,220
Census ACS
Median income
$99,478
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
76
36,885 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ARLINGTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ARLINGTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,472 students
- UNION VALE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 990 students
- LAGRANGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 817 students
- VAIL FARM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 653 students
- TITUSVILLE INTERMEDIATEElementary · 425 students
- OVERLOOK PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 394 students
Other schools in POUGHKEEPSIE
- POUGHKEEPSIE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,151 students
- POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 871 students
- SPACKENKILL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 537 students
- OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 455 students
- S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 432 students
- TITUSVILLE INTERMEDIATEElementary · 425 students
Nearby schools
- POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 871
- SMITH EARLY LEARNING CENTER1.0 mi · 328
- POUGHKEEPSIE HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,151
- G W KRIEGER SCHOOL1.2 mi · 419
- CHARLES B WARRING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 286
- GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL1.7 mi · 237
Frequently asked questions
About ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOLHow many students attend ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL?
ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 496 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL serve?
ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL is approximately 10.5:1 (47 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL?
At ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 39% White, 34% Hispanic, 18% Black, 4% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL public or private?
ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by ARLINGTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.