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Enrollment
494
Elementary
DISTRICT 493 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BALDWINSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360387000139
CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
7344 O'BRIEN RD, BALDWINSVILLE, NY 13027 · (315) 638-6130 · Onondaga County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL494 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 53% 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.
- 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
14.8:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
123 students
DISTRICT 26% · 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 | 36 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 63 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 5 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
23%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 26% · 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
CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→DONALD S RAY SCHOOL→THEODORE R DURGEE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL→CHARLES W BAKER HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within BALDWINSVILLE 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
59.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
60.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.0% | 60.0% |
| 2023-24 | 53.0% | 53.0% |
% 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
57.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (57.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 494 | 24.9% | 57.4% |
| VAN BUREN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BALDWINSVILLE | 488 | 25.8% | 49.4% |
| BURTON STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAZENOVIA | 484 | 25.4% | 50.8% |
| MAE E REYNOLDS SCHOOL BALDWINSVILLE | 513 | 26.7% | 59.3% |
| GORDON CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BALLSTON SPA | 451 | 24.6% | 58.5% |
| TAMARAC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TROY | 505 | 27.9% | 49.4% |
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 CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Onondaga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.4% | #875 of 2,335 | #14 of 61 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #1,066 of 2,342 ▲ 111 | #19 of 61 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #982 of 2,343 ▼ 227 | #14 of 61 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 494 | #857 of 2,585 | #18 of 70 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #2,009 of 2,338 | #51 of 68 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.6% | #2,048 of 2,388 | #58 of 69 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.9% | #2,101 of 2,534 | #59 of 70 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.3% | #1,121 of 1,757 | #25 of 50 |
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
494
-31 (-6%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 535
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 494 | 33.3 | 14.8:1 | 25% (123) |
| 2023-24 | 507 | 34.3 | 14.8:1 | 28% (140) |
| 2022-23 | 528 | 34.5 | 15.3:1 | 26% (139) |
| 2020-21 | 525 | 33 | 15.9:1 | 27% (140) |
| 2017-18 | 551 | 35 | 15.7:1 | 29% (162) |
| 2015-16 | 560 | 34 | 16.5:1 | 30% (170) |
| 2010-11 | 564 | 34 | 16.6:1 | 16% (88) |
| 2000-01 | 577 | 34 | 17.0:1 | 10% (58) |
| 1990-91 | 535 | 35 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students in BALDWINSVILLE, New York, as a mid-sized elementary school. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 494 students.
Across its 8 schools, BALDWINSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 5,400 students. CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
The share of students at CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL who are White is 88%. Enrollment also includes 5% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. Among people living in Onondaga County, the White share is about 75%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 23%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 14.8:1, based on 33.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, so this school has more students per teacher. CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL counts 25% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 49% for public schools in Onondaga County.
On the allk12 Grade, CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at B-, ahead of 53% of New York public elementary schools.
CATHERINE M MCNAMARA 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 57.4% and a predicted 65.8%.
For the population of Onondaga County, the median household earns about $76,945 a year, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Across Onondaga County, 123 public schools serve about 67,044 students.
MAE E REYNOLDS SCHOOL is the nearest public school to CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.9 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 53.8%, lower than CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 57.4%.
NCES assigns CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment fell 6% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 15.9:1 to 14.8:1.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Onondaga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
471,129
Census ACS
Median income
$76,945
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
123
67,044 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BALDWINSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CHARLES W BAKER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,240 students
- THEODORE R DURGEE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 848 students
- DONALD S RAY SCHOOLMiddle · 846 students
- MAE E REYNOLDS SCHOOLElementary · 513 students
- HARRY E ELDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 504 students
- VAN BUREN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 488 students
Other schools in BALDWINSVILLE
- CHARLES W BAKER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,240 students
- THEODORE R DURGEE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 848 students
- DONALD S RAY SCHOOLMiddle · 846 students
- MAE E REYNOLDS SCHOOLElementary · 513 students
- HARRY E ELDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 504 students
- VAN BUREN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 488 students
Nearby schools
- MAE E REYNOLDS SCHOOL0.9 mi · 513
- DONALD S RAY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 846
- L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 467
- VAN BUREN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.0 mi · 488
- ELMCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.1 mi · 362
- CHARLES W BAKER HIGH SCHOOL3.1 mi · 1,240
Frequently asked questions
About CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 494 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 14.8:1 (33 FTE teachers).
How diverse is CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 88% White, 5% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by BALDWINSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Onondaga County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.