Enrollment
262
Elementary
DISTRICT 314 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CORNING CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360840000625
CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3414 STANTON ST, PAINTED POST, NY 14870 · (607) 936-4156 · Steuben County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL262 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 55% 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.
- B-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
11.7:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
131 students
DISTRICT 49% · 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 | 37 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 37 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 40 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 23% |
This year's kindergarten class (37) is 37% smaller than its 5th grade class (59).
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 29% · 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
CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→CORNING-PAINTED POST MIDDLE SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within CORNING CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
47.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -4.0pp since 2023
Math
53.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.0pp 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 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.0% | 53.0% |
| 2023-24 | 51.0% | 57.0% |
% 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
53.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (53.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 262 | 50.0% | 53.5% |
| ROUSES POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROUSES POINT | 259 | 49.0% | 58.6% |
| MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MCGRAW | 264 | 50.4% | 45.5% |
| BERLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BERLIN | 256 | 51.6% | 46.7% |
| YORK CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RETSOF | 275 | 48.4% | 34.3% |
| GRANVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GRANVILLE | 266 | 52.3% | 29.5% |
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 CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Steuben County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.5% | #1,028 of 2,335 | #5 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,327 of 2,342 ▼ 285 | #7 of 14 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #1,462 of 2,343 ▼ 617 | #9 of 14 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 262 | #2,182 of 2,585 | #11 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #1,141 of 2,338 | #8 of 14 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.5% | #2,174 of 2,388 | #8 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.0% | #1,410 of 2,534 | #11 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.0% | #961 of 1,757 | #6 of 13 |
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
262
-9 (-3%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 396
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 262 | 22.4 | 11.7:1 | 50% (131) |
| 2023-24 | 257 | 21.6 | 11.9:1 | 42% (109) |
| 2022-23 | 279 | 22.6 | 12.3:1 | 47% (132) |
| 2020-21 | 271 | 24 | 11.3:1 | 45% (122) |
| 2017-18 | 301 | 23 | 13.1:1 | 55% (165) |
| 2015-16 | 312 | 21 | 14.9:1 | 47% (148) |
| 2010-11 | 338 | 20 | 16.9:1 | 51% (172) |
| 2000-01 | 404 | 25 | 16.2:1 | 37% (151) |
| 1990-91 | 396 | 25 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary school found in PAINTED POST, New York. It teaches 262 students in kindergarten through 5. That is 41% below the average of about 443 students for elementary schools in New York.
CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in CORNING CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district with 4,354 students across 9 schools.
White students are 91% of those enrolled at CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The remaining shares are 3% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. That is in line with Steuben County, where about 92% of residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 17%.
There are about 11.7 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, which has 22.4. Elementary schools in New York have an average ratio of 12.8:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 50%. Public schools in Steuben County average a similar 51%.
Among New York public elementary schools, CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 55%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 53.5% and a predicted 56.6%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Steuben County show that the median household earns about $65,887 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 26%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Across Steuben County, 34 public schools serve about 13,701 students.
WINFIELD STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest public school to CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.8 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 5th of 8 on proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Town: Fringe. That means it sits in a town close to an urbanized area.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 262, compared with 271 in 2020-21.
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Steuben County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
92,588
Census ACS
Median income
$65,887
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
34
13,701 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CORNING CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CORNING-PAINTED POST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,524 students
- CORNING-PAINTED POST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 925 students
- WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 404 students
- FREDERICK CARDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 399 students
- ERWIN VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 378 students
- WINFIELD STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 224 students
Other schools in PAINTED POST
- CORNING-PAINTED POST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 925 students
- SCHUYLER-STEUBEN-CHEMUNG-TIOGA-ALLEGANY BOCESCombined · 535 students
- ERWIN VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 378 students
Nearby schools
- WINFIELD STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 224
- CORNING-PAINTED POST MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 925
- HUGH W GREGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 214
- ERWIN VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 378
- FREDERICK CARDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 399
- CORNING-PAINTED POST HIGH SCHOOL2.1 mi · 1,524
Frequently asked questions
About CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 262 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.7:1 students per teacher at CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 91% White, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by CORNING CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.