CINCINNATUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CINCINNATUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CINCINNATUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the cozy K-5 schools in CINCINNATUS, New York, operated by CINCINNATUS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 190 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 57% below typical.
CINCINNATUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 3 schools operated by CINCINNATUS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that teaches 462 students overall.
On demographics, CINCINNATUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 47% of students at CINCINNATUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CINCINNATUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.8%, the actual is 45.6%, a residual of -12.2 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Cortland County put the typical household earns roughly $70,418 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cortland County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,381 students), of which CINCINNATUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
The closest other public school is CINCINNATUS MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around CINCINNATUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CINCINNATUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 50.2%.
CINCINNATUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a low-density location.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 14%: 222 students in 2018 compared to 190 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 9.7:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.
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