GEORGE GRANT MASON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 65% 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.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About GEORGE GRANT MASON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Set in TUXEDO PARK, New York, GEORGE GRANT MASON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a tiny elementary campus, part of TUXEDO UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It serves 86 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 81% leaner than typical.
Across the 2 schools in TUXEDO UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (182 students total), GEORGE GRANT MASON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, GEORGE GRANT MASON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 13% Black, 3% Asian.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting GEORGE GRANT MASON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Orange County's rate of about 44%.
After controlling for student poverty, GEORGE GRANT MASON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 64.7%; this one comes in at 44.9%, -19.9 points off the demographic line.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household income runs about $97,178, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Orange County's 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students), GEORGE GRANT MASON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is GEORGE F BAKER HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GEORGE GRANT MASON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.4%.
Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 34%: 130 students in 2018 compared to 86 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 70% to 56% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 6.4:1 in 2025.
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