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How has AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
596
Elementary
DISTRICT 560 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MAHOPAC CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361812001620
AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
390 AUSTIN RD, MAHOPAC, NY 10541 · (845) 628-1346 · Putnam County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL596 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 47% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
10.8:1
55 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
126 students
DISTRICT 22% · 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 | 90 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 105 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 109 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 109 | 18% |
| Ungraded | 7 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (109).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→MAHOPAC MIDDLE SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within MAHOPAC 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
63.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
58.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 63 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.0% | 58.0% |
| 2023-24 | 49.0% | 54.0% |
% 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
55.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (55.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 596 | 21.1% | 55.4% |
| PUTNAM VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PUTNAM VALLEY | 526 | 19.6% | 79.6% |
| FISHKILL PLAINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WAPPINGERS FALLS | 602 | 24.4% | 62.0% |
| OTISVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OTISVILLE | 559 | 26.1% | 49.5% |
| LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MAHOPAC | 598 | 27.1% | 55.0% |
| THOMAS J LAHEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GREENLAWN | 602 | 16.9% | 66.2% |
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 AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Putnam County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.4% | #943 of 2,335 | #5 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #1,153 of 2,342 ▼ 9 | #6 of 10 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #808 of 2,343 ▲ 114 | #5 of 10 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 596 | #484 of 2,585 | #3 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #765 of 2,338 | #7 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.0% | #1,143 of 2,388 | #8 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.1% | #2,209 of 2,534 | #7 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.6% | #1,625 of 1,757 | #8 of 9 |
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
596
+11 (+2%) vs 2020
+4% since 1990-91, when it was 572
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 11.0:1
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 | 596 | 54.9 | 10.8:1 | 21% (126) |
| 2023-24 | 573 | 53.2 | 10.8:1 | 18% (102) |
| 2022-23 | 585 | 55.1 | 10.6:1 | 22% (131) |
| 2020-21 | 585 | 53 | 11.0:1 | 22% (128) |
| 2017-18 | 612 | 52 | 11.8:1 | 14% (84) |
| 2015-16 | 618 | 48 | 12.9:1 | 16% (98) |
| 2010-11 | 635 | 45 | 14.1:1 | 5% (32) |
| 2000-01 | 769 | 50 | 15.4:1 | 3% (25) |
| 1990-91 | 572 | 33 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The public elementary school AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in MAHOPAC, New York. It had 596 students in 2024-25, spanning kindergarten through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in New York enroll about 443 students on average.
MAHOPAC CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT counts 5 schools and 3,836 students, including AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
White students are 63% of those enrolled at AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The rest of enrollment is 28% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Census estimates put the White share of Putnam County's population at about 75%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 52, compared with 70 nationally.
There are 54.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 10.8:1. The average for elementary schools in New York, 12.8:1, is higher. Of all students at AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 21% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 47% of New York public elementary schools.
AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 55.4% is 11.8 points below the 67.2% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In the wider Putnam County area, median household income comes to about $126,257, roughly 46% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Putnam County's 23 public schools enroll about 12,955 students and include AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
The closest school to AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is MAHOPAC MIDDLE SCHOOL, located about 1.8 miles away. In all, 5 other public schools sit within five miles of AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Enrollment at AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL was 585 in 2020-21 and 596 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%.
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Putnam County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
98,107
Census ACS
Median income
$126,257
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
12,955 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MAHOPAC CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MAHOPAC HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,255 students
- MAHOPAC MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 902 students
- LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 598 students
- FULMAR ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 485 students
- MAHOPAC FALLS SCHOOLCombined
Other schools in MAHOPAC
- MAHOPAC HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,255 students
- MAHOPAC MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 902 students
- LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 598 students
- FULMAR ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 485 students
- MAHOPAC FALLS SCHOOLCombined
Other Austin Road Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Austin Road Elementary. AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Austin Road Elementary SchoolWinder, GA · 700 students
- Austin Road Elementary SchoolStockbridge, GA · 414 students
Nearby schools
- MAHOPAC MIDDLE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 902
- MAHOPAC HIGH SCHOOL2.0 mi · 1,255
- LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.9 mi · 598
- FULMAR ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.1 mi · 485
- THOMAS JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.3 mi · 383
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.2 mi · 466
Frequently asked questions
About AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 596 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 55 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.8:1.
What is the student diversity at AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 63% White, 28% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
AUSTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by MAHOPAC CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Putnam County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.