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How has GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
492
Elementary
DISTRICT 338 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KINGSTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361629001432
GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL
67 WALL ST, KINGSTON, NY 12401 · (845) 943-3518 · Ulster County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL492 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 7% 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.
- FBeats 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
11.6:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
186 students
DISTRICT 47% · 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 | 178 | 36% |
| Kindergarten | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 48% larger than its 4th grade class (44).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
32.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
32.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.0% | 32.0% |
| 2023-24 | 31.0% | 31.0% |
% 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
31.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-29.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 61% 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 GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL
GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL's state test result (31.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL this school | 492 | 37.8% | 31.3% |
| FRANK G LINDSEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MONTROSE | 472 | 35.4% | 58.5% |
| MATTHEW PATERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PATTERSON | 464 | 37.3% | 46.7% |
| VAN CORTLANDTVILLE SCHOOL MOHEGAN LAKE | 568 | 34.0% | 48.2% |
| TERRYVILLE ROAD SCHOOL PORT JEFFERSON STA | 471 | 41.4% | 31.2% |
| BEREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MONTGOMERY | 497 | 42.3% | 48.3% |
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 GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Ulster County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.3% | #1,973 of 2,335 | #20 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #2,056 of 2,342 ▼ 72 | #20 of 21 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #2,072 of 2,343 ▼ 339 | #20 of 21 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 492 | #870 of 2,585 | #4 of 22 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #1,098 of 2,338 | #17 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.8% | #424 of 2,388 | #4 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.8% | #1,750 of 2,534 | #11 of 22 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +26.2% | #94 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
492
+27 (+6%) vs 2020
-16% since 1990-91, when it was 585
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 11.9:1
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 | 492 | 42.5 | 11.6:1 | 38% (186) |
| 2023-24 | 514 | 43.2 | 11.9:1 | 45% (229) |
| 2022-23 | 449 | 40.5 | 11.1:1 | 52% (235) |
| 2020-21 | 465 | 39 | 11.9:1 | 51% (238) |
| 2017-18 | 390 | 27 | 14.4:1 | 68% (266) |
| 2015-16 | 372 | 27 | 13.8:1 | 70% (262) |
| 2010-11 | 438 | 36 | 12.2:1 | 64% (281) |
| 2000-01 | 455 | 39 | 11.7:1 | 62% (281) |
| 1990-91 | 585 | 39 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL.
About GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL
Federal records list GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL as an elementary school in KINGSTON, New York. It enrolls 492 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 4.
GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL belongs to KINGSTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district of 10 schools and 5,877 students.
The largest racial or ethnic group at GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL is Hispanic, with 43% of students. Next come 38% White, 9% Black, 7% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The county population is about 12% Hispanic. The diversity index for GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL is 66%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school lists 42.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.6:1. The average for elementary schools in New York, 12.8:1, is higher. A total of 186 students, or 38%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 7% of New York public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL ranks in the bottom 10% in New York. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 31.3%, against a prediction of 61.1%.
American Community Survey estimates for Ulster County show that the median household earns about $86,271 a year, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Across Ulster County, 45 public schools serve about 20,189 students.
KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.9 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. By average proficiency, GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL is 8th among 9 schools close by.
Locale data from NCES put GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL inside a principal city with a population under 100,000 (City: Small).
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 6%, from 465 to 492.
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Ulster County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
182,601
Census ACS
Median income
$86,271
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
45
20,189 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in KINGSTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,749 students
- J WATSON BAILEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 936 students
- M CLIFFORD MILLER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 826 students
- HARRY L EDSON SCHOOLElementary · 397 students
- ROBERT R GRAVES SCHOOLElementary · 325 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOLElementary · 322 students
Other schools in KINGSTON
- KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,749 students
- J WATSON BAILEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 936 students
- HARRY L EDSON SCHOOLElementary · 397 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOLElementary · 322 students
- CHAMBERS SCHOOLElementary · 306 students
Other George Washington schools
5 other US public schools in 3 states are named George Washington. GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 6.
- GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOLWHITE PLAINS, NY · 602 students
- GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOLWEST HEMPSTEAD, NY · 340 students
- George Washington SchoolEdgewater, NJ · 333 students
- George Washington SchoolMAHWAH, NJ · 177 students
- GEORGE WASHINGTONLARES, PR · 143 students
Nearby schools
- KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,749
- HARRY L EDSON SCHOOL1.0 mi · 397
- J WATSON BAILEY MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 936
- JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 322
- CHAMBERS SCHOOL2.4 mi · 306
- ERNEST C MYER SCHOOL2.5 mi · 213
Frequently asked questions
About GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOLHow large is GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL?
GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL enrolls approximately 492 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL serve?
GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.6:1 students per teacher at GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL.
How diverse is GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL?
GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL reports a student body of 38% White, 43% Hispanic, 9% Black, 3% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL?
GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL is overseen by KINGSTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Ulster County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.