Enrollment
325
Elementary
DISTRICT 319 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TROY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362895003912
CARROLL HILL SCHOOL
112 DELAWARE AVE, TROY, NY 12180 · (518) 328-5701 · Rensselaer County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL325 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 24% 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.
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
7.0:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
273 students
DISTRICT 72% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 10 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (65).
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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 TROY CITY 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
40.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
41.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 40 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 41.0% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 33.0% |
% 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
33.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 CARROLL HILL SCHOOL
CARROLL HILL SCHOOL's state test result (33.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARROLL HILL SCHOOL this school | 325 | 84.0% | 33.7% |
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT SCHOOL BINGHAMTON | 352 | 80.7% | 18.4% |
| WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL BINGHAMTON | 355 | 82.0% | 35.5% |
| CALVIN COOLIDGE SCHOOL BINGHAMTON | 281 | 78.3% | 33.0% |
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BINGHAMTON | 403 | 80.1% | 27.2% |
| ABRAM LANSING SCHOOL COHOES | 305 | 83.9% | 38.7% |
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 CARROLL HILL SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Rensselaer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.7% | #1,894 of 2,335 | #18 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #1,828 of 2,342 ▲ 104 | #17 of 21 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,810 of 2,343 ▲ 59 | #18 of 21 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 325 | #1,842 of 2,585 | #15 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.0:1 | #24 of 2,338 | #2 of 22 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.5% | #56 of 2,388 | #1 of 22 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.0% | #646 of 2,534 | #2 of 22 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.2% | #1,711 of 1,757 | #17 of 17 |
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
325
-56 (-15%) vs 2020
-6% since 1990-91, when it was 344
Student : Teacher
7.0:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 325 | 46.7 | 7.0:1 | 84% (273) |
| 2023-24 | 321 | 44 | 7.3:1 | 81% (260) |
| 2022-23 | 340 | 43.5 | 7.8:1 | 85% (289) |
| 2020-21 | 381 | 34 | 11.2:1 | 85% (324) |
| 2017-18 | 329 | 32 | 10.3:1 | 85% (280) |
| 2015-16 | 435 | 32 | 13.6:1 | 81% (352) |
| 2010-11 | 289 | 27 | 10.7:1 | 74% (213) |
| 2000-01 | 357 | 30 | 11.9:1 | 59% (209) |
| 1990-91 | 344 | 25 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CARROLL HILL SCHOOL.
About CARROLL HILL SCHOOL
CARROLL HILL SCHOOL is the name of a small elementary school in TROY, New York. The grade span is pre-K through 5, and enrollment is 325 students. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New York) has about 443 students.
CARROLL HILL SCHOOL sits within TROY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 7 schools and 3,522 students.
CARROLL HILL SCHOOL has no majority group; White students are the largest, at 33%. Other students are 24% Black, 23% Hispanic, and 20% multiracial. By comparison, Rensselaer County residents are about 80% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 74% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The ratio of students to teachers is 7.0:1, with 46.7 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Lunch subsidy eligibility at CARROLL HILL SCHOOL is 84%. Across public schools in Rensselaer County, the average is 46%.
allk12 grades CARROLL HILL SCHOOL a C-. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for CARROLL HILL SCHOOL is -10.4 points: 33.7% actual, 44.1% predicted.
County data help place the school in context: in Rensselaer County, the median household income is $87,915, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. In all, Rensselaer County has 42 public schools and roughly 19,274 students.
The next-closest public school is KIPP TROY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL, about 0.8 miles away. CARROLL HILL SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. CARROLL HILL SCHOOL's average proficiency of 33.7% compares with 50.9% for its nearest scored neighbors.
CARROLL HILL SCHOOL is coded as City: Small in federal locale data.
Federal data show a 15% enrollment decrease, from 381 in 2020-21 to 325 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 11.2:1 to 7.0:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at CARROLL HILL SCHOOL. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Rensselaer County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
160,332
Census ACS
Median income
$87,915
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
42
19,274 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in TROY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- TROY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,193 students
- TROY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 733 students
- PS 14Elementary · 460 students
- PS 18Elementary · 313 students
- PS 16Elementary · 249 students
- PS 2Elementary · 249 students
Other schools in TROY
- TROY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,193 students
- KIPP TROY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 762 students
- TROY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 733 students
- LANSINGBURGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 625 students
- TAMARAC MIDDLE SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOLCombined · 576 students
- TURNPIKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 542 students
Nearby schools
- KIPP TROY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL0.8 mi · 762
- PS 160.8 mi · 249
- TROY HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 1,193
- PS 141.2 mi · 460
- NORTH GREENBUSH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 35
- TROY MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 733
Frequently asked questions
About CARROLL HILL SCHOOLHow many students attend CARROLL HILL SCHOOL?
CARROLL HILL SCHOOL enrolls approximately 325 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does CARROLL HILL SCHOOL serve?
CARROLL HILL SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at CARROLL HILL SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at CARROLL HILL SCHOOL is approximately 7.0:1 (47 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at CARROLL HILL SCHOOL?
Student demographics at CARROLL HILL SCHOOL are roughly 33% White, 23% Hispanic, 24% Black, 0% Asian, 20% Two or more.
What district is CARROLL HILL SCHOOL in?
CARROLL HILL SCHOOL is part of TROY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.