Enrollment
393
Elementary
DISTRICT 466 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360738000526
CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2 HERBERT DR, CHESTER, NY 10918 · (845) 469-2178 · Orange County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL393 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% 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.
- 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
10.2:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
159 students
DISTRICT 41% · 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 | 20 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 69 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 13% larger than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→CHESTER ACADEMY-MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within CHESTER UNION FREE 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
61.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +22.0pp since 2023
Math
53.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 61 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 up about 22 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.0% | 53.0% |
| 2023-24 | 39.0% | 50.0% |
% 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
50.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (50.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 393 | 40.5% | 50.5% |
| PLATTEKILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLATTEKILL | 426 | 38.7% | 59.0% |
| FIFTH AVENUE SCHOOL BAY SHORE | 342 | 36.3% | N/A |
| RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PATCHOGUE | 314 | 40.4% | 39.8% |
| TERRYVILLE ROAD SCHOOL PORT JEFFERSON STA | 471 | 41.4% | 31.2% |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MOHEGAN LAKE | 411 | 35.3% | 63.4% |
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 CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.5% | #1,144 of 2,335 | #12 of 40 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,323 of 2,342 ▼ 32 | #18 of 40 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #904 of 2,343 ▲ 418 | #10 of 40 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 393 | #1,402 of 2,585 | #35 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.2:1 | #505 of 2,338 | #6 of 43 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.6% | #528 of 2,388 | #9 of 43 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.5% | #1,679 of 2,534 | #25 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.5% | #1,629 of 1,757 | #30 of 31 |
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
393
+29 (+8%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 443
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 11.4:1
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 | 393 | 38.5 | 10.2:1 | 40% (159) |
| 2023-24 | 389 | 37.6 | 10.4:1 | 40% (157) |
| 2022-23 | 387 | 33.5 | 11.6:1 | 41% (159) |
| 2020-21 | 364 | 32 | 11.4:1 | 32% (115) |
| 2017-18 | 403 | 27.4 | 14.7:1 | 37% (149) |
| 2015-16 | 431 | 31 | 13.9:1 | 39% (166) |
| 2010-11 | 474 | 36 | 13.2:1 | 26% (123) |
| 2000-01 | 534 | 41 | 13.0:1 | 16% (85) |
| 1990-91 | 443 | 31 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school in CHESTER, New York. It teaches 393 students in pre-K through 5.
Enrollment across the 2 schools in CHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT totals 931 students.
The largest group at CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Hispanic students, at 43%. The remaining students are 40% White, 12% Black, 3% Asian, and 2% multiracial. Census figures show Orange County is about 24% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 64%.
The school had 38.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 10.2:1. The school's 10.2:1 compares with an average of 12.8:1 for elementary schools in New York. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 40%.
Among New York public elementary schools, CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 45%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 50.5% actual against 60.1% predicted.
The school's county is Orange County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $97,178 a year, roughly 33% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Orange County number 82, with about 57,122 students.
Measured in a straight line, CHESTER ACADEMY-MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.2 miles from CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The five-mile area around CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds 7 other public schools. CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in 5th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Town: Fringe, which covers schools in a town close to an urbanized area.
Enrollment increased by 8% across 4 years, from 364 in 2020-21 to 393 in 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 11.4:1 to 10.2:1 over the same years.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
406,616
Census ACS
Median income
$97,178
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
82
57,122 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CHESTER ACADEMY-MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 538 students
Other Chester Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 8 states are named Chester Elementary. CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 3rd largest of the 8.
- Chester Elementary SchoolChester, IL · 640 students
- Chester Elementary SchoolSpokane Valley, WA · 410 students
- Chester Elementary SchoolChester, CT · 198 students
- Chester ElementaryChester, CA · 171 students
- Chester Elementary -02Chester, SD · 154 students
Nearby schools
- CHESTER ACADEMY-MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 538
- C J HOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOL3.6 mi · 646
- GOSHEN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL3.6 mi · 603
- SCOTCHTOWN AVENUE SCHOOL3.8 mi · 505
- GOSHEN CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL3.9 mi · 983
- ORANGE-ULSTER BOCES4.0 mi · 1,082
Frequently asked questions
About CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 393 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 10.2:1 (39 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 40% White, 43% Hispanic, 12% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of CHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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