The bulletin board for America's public schools. Parents, teachers, students, and staff. One community per school.
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SARATOGA SPRINGS CITY SD·NCES 362577003539

GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

61 GEYSER RD, SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866 · (518) 584-7699 · Saratoga County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL337 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 57% 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

Enrollment
337
Elementary
DISTRICT 413 · STATE 443
Student : Teacher
9.6:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
125 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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

GradeStudentsShare
Kindergarten5918%
Grade 15617%
Grade 26218%
Grade 36218%
Grade 44814%
Grade 54614%
Ungraded41%

This year's kindergarten class (59) is 28% larger than its 5th grade class (46).

Student demographics
28%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · STATE 72% · US 70%
White
28384%
DISTRICT 85% · STATE 39% · US 43%
Hispanic
288%
DISTRICT 6% · STATE 31% · US 30%
Black
51%
DISTRICT 2% · STATE 16% · US 15%
Asian
31%
DISTRICT 2% · STATE 10% · US 6%
Two+
185%
DISTRICT 5% · STATE 4% · US 5%
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
Male
17753%
Female
16047%

School pathway

Students here typically continue to
GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→MAPLE AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL→SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within SARATOGA SPRINGS CITY SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.

Discussions

+ POST
QUIET COMMUNITY
Be the first to start a discussion at GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
START A DISCUSSION

Test scores

NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)
English Language Arts
60.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
68.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023

What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.

NYS Assessments results by year

School yearEnglish Language ArtsMath
2024-2560.0%68.0%
2023-2449.0%63.0%
% 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 · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
56.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.5pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 57% 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 GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (56.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.

SchoolStudentsLow-incomeProficient
GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school33737.1%56.9%
AVON PRIMARY SCHOOL
AVON
31637.7%55.2%
HIGHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DERBY
34436.3%56.5%
WESTMORELAND ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WHITESBORO
33537.9%41.2%
WEEDSPORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WEEDSPORT
32436.4%50.0%
COMO PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LANCASTER
35236.1%57.8%
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 GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks

Among elementary schools
MeasureThis schoolIn New YorkIn Saratoga County
State test proficiency
ranked highest first
56.9%#894 of 2,335#22 of 30
Math proficiency
ranked highest first
68.0%#782 of 2,342
▲ 36
#20 of 30
no change
Reading proficiency
ranked highest first
60.0%#951 of 2,343
▼ 22
#19 of 30
▲ 2
Enrollment
ranked largest first
337#1,755 of 2,585#28 of 31
Students per teacher
ranked fewest first
9.6:1#319 of 2,338#1 of 30
Diversity index
ranked most diverse first
28.5%#1,915 of 2,388#15 of 30
Free and reduced lunch
ranked highest share first
37.1%#1,775 of 2,534#8 of 30
Enrollment change since 2017-18
ranked steepest decline first
-18.6%#681 of 1,757#5 of 21
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 2024-25
Enrollment
337
-39 (-10%) vs 2020
-50% since 1990-91, when it was 680
Student : Teacher
9.6:1
was 10.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Enrollment and staffing by year

School yearStudentsTeachers (FTE)Students per teacherFree and reduced lunch
2024-2533735.29.6:137% (125)
2023-2435236.99.5:136% (125)
2022-2334833.210.5:134% (119)
2020-213763510.7:134% (126)
2017-184143113.3:127% (110)
2015-163993112.9:127% (109)
2010-114113113.3:122% (89)
2000-014523214.1:114% (63)
1990-916803817.9:1N/A
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

About GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

The public elementary school GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in SARATOGA SPRINGS, New York. The student body numbers 337 students, from pre-K through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New York) has about 443 students.

SARATOGA SPRINGS CITY SD is responsible for 8 schools, GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL included, with 5,750 students in all.

White students make up 84% of enrollment at GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Other students are 8% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. The school's diversity index is 28%, meaning two students picked at random have a 28% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.6:1 at GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 35.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 3.3 below the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 37%.

The allk12 Grade for GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is B. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 57% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.

A school with GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 61.4%. GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 56.9%, 4.5 points below that line.

Federal survey data for Saratoga County 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.

Nearby, SARATOGA SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL is about 1.8 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 56.9% against a local average of 65.0%.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Small: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.

Federal data show a 10% enrollment decrease, from 376 in 2020-21 to 337 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 10.7:1 in 2020-21 to 9.6:1 in 2024-25.

Threads on this page can be about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.

Saratoga County at a glance

View full county profile
Population
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

School name
GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
District
SARATOGA SPRINGS CITY SD
Address
61 GEYSER RD, SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866
Phone
(518) 584-7699
County
Saratoga County
Level
Elementary
Grade range
PK–05
Total enrollment
337
Teachers (FTE)
35
Student–teacher ratio
9.6:1
Free and reduced lunch
125 (37%)
Locale
23-Suburb: Small
NCES ID
362577003539
Charter school
No
Virtual school
No

Related schools

Other schools in SARATOGA SPRINGS CITY SD
Other schools in SARATOGA SPRINGS
Nearby schools

Frequently asked questions

About GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
How many students attend GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 337 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 9.6:1 students per teacher at GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 84% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of SARATOGA SPRINGS CITY SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.
+ Post