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Enrollment
444
Elementary
DISTRICT 373 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HORSEHEADS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361485001239
GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
541 GARDNER RD, HORSEHEADS, NY 14845 · (607) 739-6347 · Chemung County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL444 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 59% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest 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
14.5:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
163 students
DISTRICT 37% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 45 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 23% larger than its 4th grade class (66).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 29% · 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
GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→HORSEHEADS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL→HORSEHEADS MIDDLE SCHOOL→HORSEHEADS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within HORSEHEADS 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
58.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
64.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.0% | 64.0% |
| 2023-24 | 46.0% | 66.0% |
% 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
58.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (58.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 444 | 36.7% | 58.3% |
| KATHLEEN GRIMM SCHOOL FOR LEADERSHIP STATEN ISLAND | 452 | 39.6% | 73.3% |
| ERWIN VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PAINTED POST | 378 | 33.9% | 59.3% |
| NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST SENECA | 437 | 38.4% | 41.3% |
| PLANK ROAD NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEBSTER | 499 | 34.3% | 54.5% |
| VEEDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALBANY | 503 | 37.8% | 56.4% |
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 GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Chemung County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.3% | #825 of 2,335 | #1 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #933 of 2,342 ▼ 230 | #2 of 11 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #1,035 of 2,343 ▲ 12 | #2 of 11 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 444 | #1,107 of 2,585 | #1 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #1,949 of 2,338 | #11 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.8% | #1,504 of 2,388 | #8 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.7% | #1,788 of 2,534 | #13 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.2% | #422 of 606 | N/A |
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
444
+35 (+9%) vs 2020
-6% since 1990-91, when it was 474
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 444 | 30.6 | 14.5:1 | 37% (163) |
| 2023-24 | 385 | 30.2 | 12.8:1 | 38% (148) |
| 2022-23 | 453 | 30.6 | 14.8:1 | 36% (165) |
| 2020-21 | 409 | 27 | 15.2:1 | 34% (139) |
| 2017-18 | 426 | 29.3 | 14.5:1 | 35% (150) |
| 2015-16 | 401 | 28 | 14.3:1 | 38% (152) |
| 2010-11 | 453 | 29 | 15.6:1 | 40% (180) |
| 2000-01 | 356 | 29 | 12.3:1 | 44% (155) |
| 1990-91 | 474 | 34 | 13.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a medium-sized elementary school, GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students in HORSEHEADS, New York. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 444 students in pre-K through 4.
Federal data list 7 schools in HORSEHEADS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 3,703 students enrolled.
Roughly 74% of students at GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are White. Other reported shares: 11% Asian, 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, and 3% Black. Chemung County's residents are about 85% White, 11 points above the school's share. The school's diversity index is 43%, meaning two students picked at random have a 43% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Staffing totals 30.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.5:1. On average, elementary schools in New York have 12.8:1, compared with 14.5:1 here. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 37%. That is 19 points below the 56% average for public schools in Chemung County.
GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded B by allk12, scoring above 59% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 3.2 points below the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 58.3% actual, 61.5% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New York.
GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in Chemung County, where the median household income is $63,716, about 27% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Besides GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Chemung County has 23 other public schools.
The next-closest public school is HORSEHEADS MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.7 miles away. GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 58.3% against a local average of 57.3%.
Under the NCES locale system, GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Suburb: Small.
Enrollment has grown by 35 students since 2020-21, to 444.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Chemung County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
82,147
Census ACS
Median income
$63,716
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
24
10,788 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HORSEHEADS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HORSEHEADS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,119 students
- HORSEHEADS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 564 students
- HORSEHEADS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 529 students
- BIG FLATS SCHOOLElementary · 372 students
- RIDGE ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 369 students
- CENTER STREET SCHOOLElementary · 306 students
Other schools in HORSEHEADS
- HORSEHEADS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,119 students
- HORSEHEADS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 564 students
- HORSEHEADS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLMiddle · 529 students
- RIDGE ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 369 students
- CENTER STREET SCHOOLElementary · 306 students
Nearby schools
- HORSEHEADS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 564
- HORSEHEADS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 529
- HORSEHEADS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.6 mi · 1,119
- CENTER STREET SCHOOL1.7 mi · 306
- RIDGE ROAD SCHOOL1.9 mi · 369
- THOMAS A EDISON HIGH SCHOOL3.9 mi · 321
Frequently asked questions
About GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 444 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.5:1 students per teacher at GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 74% White, 6% Hispanic, 3% Black, 11% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
GARDNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by HORSEHEADS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.