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CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Located at 24 S PARK ST, in CAMBRIDGE, New York, CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community that enrolls 435 students (grades pre-K through 6), one of the schools within CAMBRIDGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Within CAMBRIDGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 780 students, CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). The remainder breaks down as 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Washington County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.1:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 51% of students at CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.1%, the actual is 42.3%, a residual of -13.8 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate median household earnings sit near $73,495, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Washington County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,873 students), of which CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: CAMBRIDGE JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 57.4%.
Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.
Over the past 7-year window. CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 450 (now 435). Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.
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