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Enrollment
572
Elementary
DISTRICT 452 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CARTHAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360663000443
BLACK RIVER SCHOOL
160 LERAY ST, BLACK RIVER, NY 13612 · (315) 773-5911 · Jefferson County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL572 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 46% of New York public elementary schools
- B-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
11.2:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
193 students
DISTRICT 46% · 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 | 64 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 106 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 99 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 114 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 96 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (106) is 10% larger than its 4th grade class (96).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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 CARTHAGE 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
53.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
57.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.0% | 57.0% |
| 2023-24 | 41.0% | 58.0% |
% 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
52.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 BLACK RIVER SCHOOL
BLACK RIVER SCHOOL's state test result (52.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLACK RIVER SCHOOL this school | 572 | 33.7% | 52.3% |
| E J RUSSELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PINE BUSH | 524 | 34.0% | 45.3% |
| HIGHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HIGHLAND | 665 | 35.5% | 45.0% |
| GOSHEN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL GOSHEN | 603 | 29.7% | 45.5% |
| KLEM ROAD SOUTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEBSTER | 517 | 31.3% | 57.3% |
| JOSEPH A EDGAR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL ROCKY POINT | 542 | 34.5% | 36.8% |
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 BLACK RIVER SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.3% | #1,076 of 2,335 | #4 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #1,186 of 2,342 ▼ 182 | #4 of 20 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,219 of 2,343 ▲ 15 | #4 of 20 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 572 | #560 of 2,585 | #1 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #952 of 2,338 | #9 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.3% | #926 of 2,388 | #3 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.7% | #1,879 of 2,534 | #19 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +25.7% | #96 of 606 | 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
572
+131 (+30%) vs 2020
+15% since 1990-91, when it was 497
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 10.0:1
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 | 572 | 50.9 | 11.2:1 | 34% (193) |
| 2023-24 | 546 | 47.2 | 11.6:1 | 34% (188) |
| 2022-23 | 460 | 42.2 | 10.9:1 | 40% (185) |
| 2020-21 | 441 | 44 | 10.0:1 | 38% (166) |
| 2017-18 | 455 | 40 | 11.4:1 | 47% (215) |
| 2015-16 | 482 | 41 | 11.8:1 | 45% (215) |
| 2010-11 | 488 | 36 | 13.6:1 | 47% (230) |
| 2000-01 | 492 | 38 | 12.9:1 | 55% (269) |
| 1990-91 | 497 | 29 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BLACK RIVER SCHOOL.
About BLACK RIVER SCHOOL
A medium-sized elementary school in BLACK RIVER, New York, BLACK RIVER SCHOOL is part of CARTHAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Grades offered run from pre-K through 4, with 572 students enrolled. The average among elementary schools in New York is roughly 443 students; this school is 29% larger than that.
BLACK RIVER SCHOOL is one school in a 5-school district, CARTHAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which enrolls 3,168 students.
White students make up a majority at BLACK RIVER SCHOOL, at 62%. The school is also 19% Hispanic, 10% Black, and 7% multiracial. Census figures show Jefferson County is about 83% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 56% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1 at BLACK RIVER SCHOOL, with 50.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 1.6 below the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 34%. The average for public schools in Jefferson County is 49%.
The allk12 Grade for BLACK RIVER SCHOOL is B-. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 46% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
A school with BLACK RIVER SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 62.6%. BLACK RIVER SCHOOL scores 52.3%, 10.3 points below that line.
In the county around the school, Jefferson County, the median household income is $66,301, roughly 27% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 39 public schools in Jefferson County, enrolling about 16,789 students in all.
The next-closest public school is CALCIUM PRIMARY SCHOOL, about 3.1 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is 2. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, BLACK RIVER SCHOOL ranks 1st on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around BLACK RIVER SCHOOL as Suburb: Small, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Federal data show a 30% enrollment gain, from 441 in 2020-21 to 572 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 10.0:1 to 11.2:1.
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Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
115,040
Census ACS
Median income
$66,301
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
39
16,789 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CARTHAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 925 students
- CARTHAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 887 students
- CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 394 students
- WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 390 students
Nearby schools
- CALCIUM PRIMARY SCHOOL3.1 mi · 480
- EVANS MILLS PRIMARY SCHOOL4.8 mi · 330
- OHIO STREET SCHOOL5.2 mi · 308
- STARBUCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.3 mi · 153
- NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.5 mi · 435
- KNICKERBOCKER SCHOOL6.5 mi · 340
Frequently asked questions
About BLACK RIVER SCHOOLHow large is BLACK RIVER SCHOOL?
BLACK RIVER SCHOOL enrolls approximately 572 students in grades PK-04.
Is BLACK RIVER SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
BLACK RIVER SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at BLACK RIVER SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at BLACK RIVER SCHOOL is approximately 11.2:1 (51 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at BLACK RIVER SCHOOL?
At BLACK RIVER SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 62% White, 19% Hispanic, 10% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is BLACK RIVER SCHOOL public or private?
BLACK RIVER SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by CARTHAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.