DALTON-NUNDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 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 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 57% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About DALTON-NUNDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a close-knit primary school in NUNDA, New York, DALTON-NUNDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL teaches 190 students from grades pre-K through 4, run under DALTON-NUNDA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (KESHEQUA). Enrollment runs roughly 57% leaner than the state mean of about 443.
Across the 3 schools in DALTON-NUNDA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (KESHEQUA) (534 students total), DALTON-NUNDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, DALTON-NUNDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). The remainder looks like 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, DALTON-NUNDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting DALTON-NUNDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DALTON-NUNDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 56.8%; DALTON-NUNDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 31.7%, -25.1 points below that line.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Livingston County) reports that median household income runs about $74,001, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Livingston County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,217 students), DALTON-NUNDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
DALTON-NUNDA SECONDARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around DALTON-NUNDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, DALTON-NUNDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.9%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DALTON-NUNDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 16%, going from 226 students in 2018 to 190 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 98% to 94%. Class-load math has fell: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 in 2025.
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