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Enrollment
468
Elementary
DISTRICT 479 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360594000386
FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
25 LAKEHILL RD, BALLSTON LAKE, NY 12019 · (518) 399-9141 · Saratoga County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL468 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 84% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest 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
11.4:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
89 students
DISTRICT 19% · 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 | 63 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 91 | 19% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is 31% smaller than its 5th grade class (91).
Student demographics
21%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 20% · 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
FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→RICHARD H O'ROURKE MIDDLE SCHOOL→BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
80.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
80.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 80.0% | 80.0% |
| 2023-24 | 72.0% | 77.0% |
% 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
75.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (75.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 468 | 19.0% | 75.0% |
| QUEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HILTON | 459 | 20.7% | 54.1% |
| L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BALDWINSVILLE | 467 | 17.1% | 62.8% |
| PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCOTIA | 470 | 20.6% | 64.3% |
| K C HEFFERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MARCELLUS | 471 | 20.8% | 75.8% |
| HILLVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LANCASTER | 451 | 17.1% | 70.3% |
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 FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Saratoga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #261 of 2,335 | #4 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #356 of 2,342 ▲ 17 | #7 of 30 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #254 of 2,343 ▼ 29 | #2 of 30 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 468 | #973 of 2,585 | #14 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #1,027 of 2,338 | #6 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 21.0% | #2,080 of 2,388 | #20 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.0% | #2,259 of 2,534 | #25 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +16.7% | #173 of 606 | #1 of 9 |
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
468
-11 (-2%) vs 2020
-5% since 1990-91, when it was 493
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 468 | 41 | 11.4:1 | 19% (89) |
| 2023-24 | 485 | 40.5 | 12.0:1 | 20% (96) |
| 2022-23 | 486 | 41.7 | 11.7:1 | 17% (82) |
| 2020-21 | 479 | 36 | 13.3:1 | 14% (69) |
| 2017-18 | 401 | 29 | 13.8:1 | 17% (69) |
| 2015-16 | 399 | 30 | 13.3:1 | 16% (62) |
| 2010-11 | 449 | 37 | 12.1:1 | 12% (52) |
| 2000-01 | 556 | 31 | 17.9:1 | 10% (57) |
| 1990-91 | 493 | 33 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school serving families in BALLSTON LAKE, New York. The school serves 468 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25.
FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one school in a 5-school district, BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which enrolls 3,105 students.
About 89% of the student body at FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White. Other reported shares: 4% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. The White share in Saratoga County as a whole is similar, at about 88%. The school's diversity index is 21%, meaning two students picked at random have a 21% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Dividing enrollment by its 41 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 11.4:1. That is lower than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Eligible students account for 19% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Saratoga County is 30%.
allk12 grades FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an A-. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 75.0% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 68.0%.
Saratoga County census figures show that the median household income is $100,787, roughly 45% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 50 public schools in Saratoga County, enrolling about 30,097 students in all.
The closest other public school is BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.5 miles away. FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 69.9% on proficiency, and FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is above that at 75.0%.
Locale: Rural: Fringe. In NCES terms, the school is in rural territory close to an urban area.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (479) and 2024-25 (468). Its ratio of students to teachers was 13.3:1 in 2020-21, and 11.4:1 in 2024-25.
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Saratoga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
238,284
Census ACS
Median income
$100,787
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
50
30,097 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 965 students
- RICHARD H O'ROURKE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 704 students
- CHARLTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 498 students
- PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 470 students
Other schools in BALLSTON LAKE
- CHANGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 510 students
- CHARLTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 498 students
Nearby schools
- BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 965
- RICHARD H O'ROURKE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 704
- PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.7 mi · 470
- CHARLTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.8 mi · 498
- GLENCLIFF SCHOOL3.4 mi · 368
- CHANGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.9 mi · 510
Frequently asked questions
About FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 468 students in grades KG-05.
Is FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 11.4:1 (41 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 89% White, 4% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.