Enrollment
325
Elementary
DISTRICT 362 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DELAWARE ACADEMY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AT DELHI·NCES 360891000680
DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2 SHELDON DR, DELHI, NY 13753 · (607) 746-2105 · Delaware County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL325 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of New York public elementary schools
- A-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
9.6:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
131 students
DISTRICT 39% · 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 | 18 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 31% smaller than its 5th grade class (62).
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 15% · 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
DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→DELAWARE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within DELAWARE ACADEMY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AT DELHI. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
60.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
78.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.0% | 78.0% |
| 2023-24 | 63.0% | 78.0% |
% 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
67.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% 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 DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (67.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 325 | 40.3% | 67.4% |
| ALEXANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALEXANDER | 326 | 39.9% | 45.8% |
| MCCONNELLSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BLOSSVALE | 322 | 40.4% | 30.1% |
| WAYNE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ONTARIO CENTER | 305 | 38.4% | 54.9% |
| MINOA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MINOA | 307 | 39.7% | 43.5% |
| PALMYRA-MACEDON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL MACEDON | 339 | 43.4% | 39.2% |
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 DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.4% | #468 of 2,335 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #418 of 2,342 ▼ 67 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #941 of 2,343 ▼ 502 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 325 | #1,836 of 2,585 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.6:1 | #313 of 2,338 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.7% | #2,168 of 2,388 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.3% | #1,686 of 2,534 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.7% | #1,494 of 1,757 |
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
325
+15 (+5%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 627
Student : Teacher
9.6:1
was 11.9:1
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 | 325 | 34 | 9.6:1 | 40% (131) |
| 2023-24 | 343 | 27.9 | 12.3:1 | 38% (130) |
| 2022-23 | 333 | 24.9 | 13.4:1 | 42% (139) |
| 2020-21 | 310 | 26 | 11.9:1 | 36% (113) |
| 2017-18 | 341 | 32 | 10.7:1 | 45% (155) |
| 2015-16 | 346 | 32 | 10.8:1 | 44% (152) |
| 2010-11 | 333 | 36 | 9.3:1 | 42% (140) |
| 2000-01 | 322 | 22 | 14.6:1 | 36% (115) |
| 1990-91 | 627 | 44 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public small elementary school in DELHI, New York. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 325 students. The average for elementary schools in New York is about 443 students, so this school is 27% smaller than average.
DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the 2 schools that make up DELAWARE ACADEMY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AT DELHI (724 students in total).
About 91% of the student body at DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White. Beyond that, enrollment is 5% Hispanic. The White share in Delaware County as a whole is similar, at about 90%. DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's diversity index is 17%, against a US figure of 70%.
With 34 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL was 9.6:1. This ratio sits 3.3 below the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 40%.
DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 78% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On BeatsExpectations, DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 7.3 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
Federal survey data for Delaware County show that the median household income is $63,337, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 12% of people live in poverty. There are 21 public schools in Delaware County, enrolling about 5,307 students in all.
Nearby, DELAWARE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.1 miles away. There are 2 more public schools inside ten miles. DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 67.4% against a local average of 49.3%.
In the federal locale system, DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded Rural: Remote, for schools in rural territory far from an urban area.
Enrollment climbed 5% from its 2020-21 level of 310. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.9:1 in 2020-21 to 9.6:1 in 2024-25.
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Delaware County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
44,487
Census ACS
Median income
$63,337
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
21
5,307 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in DELAWARE ACADEMY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AT DELHI
- DELAWARE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 399 students
Nearby schools
- DELAWARE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 399
- ANDES CENTRAL SCHOOL8.5 mi · 73
- SOUTH KORTRIGHT CENTRAL SCHOOL12.3 mi · 287
- TOWNSEND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL12.9 mi · 348
- WALTON HIGH SCHOOL13.3 mi · 271
- WALTON MIDDLE SCHOOL13.3 mi · 186
Frequently asked questions
About DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 325 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 91% White, 5% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by DELAWARE ACADEMY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AT DELHI.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.