Enrollment
306
Elementary
DISTRICT 373 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HORSEHEADS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361485001238
CENTER STREET SCHOOL
812 CENTER ST, HORSEHEADS, NY 14845 · (607) 739-5601 · Chemung County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL306 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 51% 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.
- 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
12.4:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
157 students
DISTRICT 37% · 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 | 45 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 53 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (51).
Student demographics
35%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
CENTER STREET SCHOOL→HORSEHEADS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL→HORSEHEADS MIDDLE SCHOOL→HORSEHEADS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within HORSEHEADS 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% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
58.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +9.0pp 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 58 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.0% | 58.0% |
| 2023-24 | 46.0% | 49.0% |
% 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
51.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% 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%.
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 CENTER STREET SCHOOL
CENTER STREET SCHOOL's state test result (51.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CENTER STREET SCHOOL this school | 306 | 51.3% | 51.5% |
| F P DONNELLY SCHOOL CONKLIN | 306 | 50.3% | 42.2% |
| NEWFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEWFIELD | 318 | 53.1% | 35.8% |
| NORTH HORNELL SCHOOL HORNELL | 331 | 53.5% | N/A |
| N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL CUDDEBACKVILLE | 308 | 49.4% | 37.8% |
| ELIZABETH CADY STANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SENECA FALLS | 272 | 52.2% | 33.0% |
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 CENTER STREET SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Chemung County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.5% | #1,101 of 2,335 | #4 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #1,150 of 2,342 ▲ 194 | #3 of 11 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,224 of 2,343 ▼ 177 | #4 of 11 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 306 | #1,952 of 2,585 | #14 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #1,416 of 2,338 | #4 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.5% | #1,772 of 2,388 | #9 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.3% | #1,369 of 2,534 | #10 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.9% | #811 of 1,757 | #7 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
306
-4 (-1%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 519
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 306 | 24.7 | 12.4:1 | 51% (157) |
| 2023-24 | 314 | 25 | 12.6:1 | 49% (154) |
| 2022-23 | 280 | 25.4 | 11.0:1 | 55% (154) |
| 2020-21 | 310 | 25 | 12.4:1 | 50% (155) |
| 2017-18 | 364 | 25 | 14.6:1 | 50% (183) |
| 2015-16 | 339 | 20 | 16.9:1 | 47% (161) |
| 2010-11 | 341 | 25 | 13.6:1 | 49% (168) |
| 2000-01 | 458 | 31 | 14.8:1 | 37% (169) |
| 1990-91 | 519 | 31 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CENTER STREET SCHOOL.
About CENTER STREET SCHOOL
Students in HORSEHEADS, New York, attend CENTER STREET SCHOOL, a low-enrollment elementary school. It teaches 306 students in pre-K through 4. By comparison, elementary schools in New York enroll about 443 students on average.
CENTER STREET SCHOOL is one school in a 7-school district, HORSEHEADS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which enrolls 3,703 students.
White students account for 80% of the school's enrollment. After that, the student body is 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 3% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 35%.
For every teacher at CENTER STREET SCHOOL, there are about 12.4 students; the school has 24.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. There are 157 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 51% of enrollment.
CENTER STREET SCHOOL earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 51% of New York public elementary schools.
The model predicts 56.1% for a school in New York with CENTER STREET SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. CENTER STREET SCHOOL posts 51.5%.
The county, Chemung County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $63,716 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 27%, and about 12% of people live in poverty. Counting CENTER STREET SCHOOL, Chemung County has 24 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, CENTER STREET SCHOOL is closest to HORSEHEADS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. CENTER STREET SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. CENTER STREET SCHOOL's average proficiency of 51.5% compares with 58.1% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Small, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 310 to 306, a small change.
CENTER STREET SCHOOL has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Chemung County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
82,147
Census ACS
Median income
$63,716
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
24
10,788 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HORSEHEADS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HORSEHEADS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,119 students
- HORSEHEADS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 564 students
- HORSEHEADS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 529 students
- GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 444 students
- BIG FLATS SCHOOLElementary · 372 students
- RIDGE ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 369 students
Other schools in HORSEHEADS
- HORSEHEADS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,119 students
- HORSEHEADS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 564 students
- HORSEHEADS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 529 students
- GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 444 students
- RIDGE ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 369 students
Other Center Street schools
One other US public school is named Center Street. CENTER STREET SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- CENTER STREET SCHOOLWILLISTON PARK, NY · 482 students
Nearby schools
- HORSEHEADS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,119
- GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 444
- HORSEHEADS MIDDLE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 564
- HORSEHEADS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 529
- RIDGE ROAD SCHOOL2.1 mi · 369
- THOMAS A EDISON HIGH SCHOOL2.5 mi · 321
Frequently asked questions
About CENTER STREET SCHOOLHow many students attend CENTER STREET SCHOOL?
CENTER STREET SCHOOL enrolls approximately 306 students in grades PK-04.
Is CENTER STREET SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
CENTER STREET SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
How many teachers does CENTER STREET SCHOOL have?
CENTER STREET SCHOOL employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.4:1.
What is the student diversity at CENTER STREET SCHOOL?
Student demographics at CENTER STREET SCHOOL are roughly 80% White, 8% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is CENTER STREET SCHOOL in?
CENTER STREET SCHOOL is part of HORSEHEADS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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