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Enrollment
618
Elementary
DISTRICT 482 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362937000231
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
934 ARMORY DR, UTICA, NY 13501 · (315) 368-6520 · Oneida County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL618 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 25% 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
12.9:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
489 students
DISTRICT 77% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 79 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 92 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 94 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 16% smaller than its 6th grade class (94).
Student demographics
76%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 78% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
41.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
40.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.0% | 40.0% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 34.0% |
% 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
35.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (35.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 618 | 79.1% | 35.5% |
| ROSCOE CONKLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UTICA | 503 | 79.3% | 29.3% |
| PS 220 EDWARD MANDEL FOREST HILLS | 616 | 81.2% | 45.5% |
| WOODLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 502 | 81.3% | 27.4% |
| PS/IS 295 QUEENS VILLAGE | 562 | 74.9% | 64.2% |
| PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 468 | 74.4% | 29.5% |
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 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Oneida County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.5% | #1,819 of 2,335 | #26 of 37 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,867 of 2,342 ▲ 24 | #27 of 37 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #1,764 of 2,343 ▲ 106 | #22 of 37 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 618 | #409 of 2,585 | #2 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #1,584 of 2,338 | #29 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.3% | #21 of 2,388 | #1 of 39 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.1% | #794 of 2,534 | #8 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.6% | #1,306 of 1,757 | #20 of 25 |
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
618
-66 (-10%) vs 2020
-15% since 2000-01, when it was 723
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 618 | 48 | 12.9:1 | 79% (489) |
| 2023-24 | 636 | 46.1 | 13.8:1 | 84% (534) |
| 2022-23 | 639 | 44.4 | 14.4:1 | 82% (525) |
| 2020-21 | 684 | 46 | 14.9:1 | 79% (542) |
| 2017-18 | 669 | 38 | 17.6:1 | 84% (562) |
| 2015-16 | 631 | 35 | 18.0:1 | 88% (557) |
| 2010-11 | 719 | 51 | 14.1:1 | 85% (609) |
| 2000-01 | 723 | 46 | 15.7:1 | 91% (656) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in UTICA, New York, and it is part of UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school offers kindergarten through 6 and enrolls 618 students. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 40% above that mark.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, where 13 schools serve 9,075 students.
No group is above 50% at CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL; the largest is Asian, at 31%. Other reported shares: 27% Hispanic, 19% Black, 17% White, and 6% multiracial. Oneida County's residents are about 4% Asian, 26 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 76%.
Staffing at CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes to 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.9:1. The average for elementary schools in New York is about 12.8:1. On the income side, 79% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 47% average for public schools in Oneida County is 32 points.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 25% of New York public elementary schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 35.5%; the prediction is 45.9%.
For Oneida County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $70,154 a year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Oneida County number 72, with about 32,265 students.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's nearest public school is THOMAS R PROCTOR HIGH SCHOOL (about 0.3 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment fell by 10% across 4 years, from 684 in 2020-21 to 618 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 14.9:1 to 12.9:1.
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Oneida County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
229,124
Census ACS
Median income
$70,154
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
72
32,265 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- THOMAS R PROCTOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,820 students
- SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 749 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 687 students
- GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 634 students
- WATSON WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 590 students
- KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 585 students
Other schools in UTICA
- THOMAS R PROCTOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,820 students
- SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 749 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 687 students
- GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 634 students
- WATSON WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 590 students
- KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 585 students
Nearby schools
- THOMAS R PROCTOR HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 2,820
- ALBANY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 478
- ROSCOE CONKLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 503
- MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 303
- WATSON WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 590
- JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.2 mi · 347
Frequently asked questions
About CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 618 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 12.9:1 (48 FTE teachers).
How diverse is CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 17% White, 27% Hispanic, 19% Black, 31% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Oneida County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.