Enrollment
276
Elementary
DISTRICT 317 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360246000022
DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
43 BERTHA ST, ALBANY, NY 12209 · (518) 475-6750 · Albany County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL276 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 4% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
13.7:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
225 students
DISTRICT 67% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 53 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 42 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 40 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 33% larger than its 5th grade class (40).
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
24.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
29.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.0% | 29.0% |
| 2023-24 | 20.0% | 27.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
21.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-23.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 45% 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.
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 COMMUNITY SCHOOL
DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL's state test result (21.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL this school | 276 | 81.5% | 21.7% |
| YATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 327 | 83.2% | 33.3% |
| PS 201 DISCOVERY SCHOOL FOR INQUIRY AND RESEARCH (THE) FLUSHING | 304 | 83.2% | 51.9% |
| LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 306 | 83.7% | 17.1% |
| STEAM BRIDGE SCHOOL (THE) BRONX | 271 | 80.4% | 77.2% |
| VAN CORLAER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 311 | 83.9% | 26.8% |
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 COMMUNITY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Albany County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.7% | #2,215 of 2,335 | #44 of 46 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.0% | #2,115 of 2,342 ▼ 10 | #42 of 46 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #2,226 of 2,343 ▼ 56 | #44 of 46 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 276 | #2,125 of 2,585 | #41 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #1,814 of 2,338 | #33 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.0% | #73 of 2,388 | #6 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.5% | #723 of 2,534 | #9 of 47 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.0% | #210 of 1,757 | #2 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
276
-109 (-28%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 283
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 276 | 20.1 | 13.7:1 | 82% (225) |
| 2023-24 | 311 | 22.1 | 14.1:1 | 73% (226) |
| 2022-23 | 290 | 17.3 | 16.8:1 | 81% (234) |
| 2020-21 | 385 | 28 | 13.8:1 | 72% (278) |
| 2017-18 | 418 | 28 | 14.9:1 | 44% (184) |
| 2015-16 | 464 | 26 | 17.9:1 | 63% (293) |
| 2010-11 | 418 | 34 | 12.3:1 | 66% (276) |
| 2000-01 | 401 | 25 | 16.0:1 | 75% (300) |
| 1990-91 | 283 | 14 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL.
About DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary school in ALBANY, New York, administered by ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment is 276 students in 2024-25, and the school serves pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in New York is about 443 students, so this school is 38% smaller than average.
ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT includes 16 schools. Together they enroll 8,509 students.
Federal enrollment data show Hispanic students as the largest group at DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL, at 35%. Other reported shares: 30% Black, 17% Asian, 10% White, and 7% multiracial. Albany County's residents are about 7% Hispanic, 28 points below the school's share. The school's diversity index is 74%, meaning two students picked at random have a 74% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Staffing totals 20.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.7:1. That is higher than 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 82%. That is 37 points above the 45% average for public schools in Albany County.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL receives an F. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL posts 21.7% against a 45.0% prediction, a bottom-10% result in New York.
DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is located in Albany County, where the median household income is $85,333, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 46% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 8%. Besides DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL, Albany County has 74 other public schools.
The nearest other public school, ALBANY LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, is about 0.4 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is 9th on average proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Mid-size.
Enrollment declined 28% from its 2020-21 level of 385.
The discussion area below is open to posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Albany County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
317,018
Census ACS
Median income
$85,333
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
75
39,946 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ALBANY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,937 students
- WILLIAM S HACKETT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 615 students
- NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 588 students
- STEPHEN AND HARRIET MYERS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 570 students
- NEW SCOTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 451 students
- GIFFEN MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 387 students
Other schools in ALBANY
- ALBANY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,937 students
- COLONIE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,640 students
- SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 873 students
- KIPP TECH VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 840 students
- KIPP ALBANY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 688 students
- LISHA KILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 640 students
Nearby schools
- ALBANY LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS0.4 mi · 383
- GREEN TECH HIGH CHARTER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 450
- ALBANY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES0.6 mi · 378
- THOMAS S O'BRIEN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY0.6 mi · 262
- KIPP ALBANY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL0.7 mi · 688
- WILLIAM S HACKETT MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 615
Frequently asked questions
About DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOLHow many students attend DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 276 students in grades PK-05.
Is DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL have?
DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.7:1.
What is the student diversity at DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL are roughly 10% White, 35% Hispanic, 30% Black, 17% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL in?
DELAWARE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is part of ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.