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Enrollment
634
Elementary
DISTRICT 482 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362937003948
GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
420 KEYES RD, UTICA, NY 13502 · (315) 368-6600 · Oneida County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL634 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 26% of New York public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
12.8:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
470 students
DISTRICT 77% · 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 | 98 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 97 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 102 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (98) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (102).
Student demographics
76%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 78% · 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
40.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
45.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 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 up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 45.0% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 42.0% |
% 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
36.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (36.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 634 | 74.1% | 36.9% |
| PS 193 GIL HODGES BROOKLYN | 487 | 77.4% | 51.8% |
| WATERVLIET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WATERVLIET | 670 | 72.1% | 29.9% |
| ALBANY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UTICA | 478 | 68.4% | 38.9% |
| PS 312 BERGEN BEACH BROOKLYN | 667 | 63.9% | 58.5% |
| JESSIE T ZOLLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 439 | 75.6% | 41.0% |
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 GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Oneida County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.9% | #1,762 of 2,335 | #24 of 37 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #1,662 of 2,342 ▼ 39 | #21 of 37 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,811 of 2,343 ▲ 60 | #23 of 37 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 634 | #386 of 2,585 | #1 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #1,567 of 2,338 | #28 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.1% | #23 of 2,388 | #2 of 39 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.1% | #912 of 2,534 | #9 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.1% | #1,023 of 1,757 | #17 of 25 |
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
634
-47 (-7%) vs 2020
+116% since 1990-91, when it was 293
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
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 | 634 | 49.4 | 12.8:1 | 74% (470) |
| 2023-24 | 583 | 49.4 | 11.8:1 | 75% (439) |
| 2022-23 | 597 | 49.2 | 12.1:1 | 76% (453) |
| 2020-21 | 681 | 51 | 13.3:1 | 78% (531) |
| 2017-18 | 721 | 41 | 17.6:1 | 79% (571) |
| 2015-16 | 716 | 34 | 21.1:1 | 83% (594) |
| 2010-11 | 606 | 41 | 14.8:1 | 72% (438) |
| 2000-01 | 659 | 43 | 15.3:1 | 62% (406) |
| 1990-91 | 293 | 19 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
UTICA, New York, is home to GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a medium-sized elementary school. It covers kindergarten through 6, with a total enrollment of 634 students. Enrollment is 43% higher than the average for elementary schools in New York, which is about 443.
GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one school in UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a system of 13 schools with 9,075 students.
Enrollment at GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is mixed, with White students the largest group at 32%. It is also 25% Black, 20% Hispanic, 17% Asian, and 6% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Oneida County is roughly 80% White. GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 76%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Dividing enrollment by its 49.4 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 12.8:1. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is about 12.8:1. GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 74% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Oneida County report 47%.
The allk12 Grade for GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is C. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 26% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would be expected to post about 47.7%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 36.9%.
County data help place the school in context: in Oneida County, median household income is about $70,154, about 28% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the 72 public schools in Oneida County.
The closest public school, JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL, is about 1.1 miles from GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th of 9 on average proficiency.
GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has an NCES locale of City: Small.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 7%, from 681 to 634.
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Oneida County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
229,124
Census ACS
Median income
$70,154
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
72
32,265 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- THOMAS R PROCTOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,820 students
- SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 749 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 687 students
- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 618 students
- WATSON WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 590 students
- KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 585 students
Other schools in UTICA
- THOMAS R PROCTOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,820 students
- SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 749 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 687 students
- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 618 students
- WATSON WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 590 students
- KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 585 students
Nearby schools
- JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 687
- DEERFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 320
- THOMAS JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 390
- ALBANY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 478
- UTICA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL2.5 mi · 997
- ROSCOE CONKLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.6 mi · 503
Frequently asked questions
About GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 634 students in grades KG-06.
Is GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 49 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.8:1.
How diverse is GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 32% White, 20% Hispanic, 25% Black, 17% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Oneida County.
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