Enrollment
224
Elementary
DISTRICT 231 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SCOTIA-GLENVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362631003605
GLENDAAL SCHOOL
774 SACANDAGA RD, SCOTIA, NY 12302 · (518) 382-1202 · Schenectady County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL224 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 70% of New York public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
11.8:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
57 students
DISTRICT 35% · 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
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 37 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 39 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 41 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 29 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 38 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (37) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (38).
Student demographics
23%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · 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
Based on grade levels within SCOTIA-GLENVILLE 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
69.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
72.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.0% | 72.0% |
| 2023-24 | 65.0% | 61.0% |
% 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
65.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 GLENDAAL SCHOOL
GLENDAAL SCHOOL's state test result (65.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLENDAAL SCHOOL this school | 224 | 25.4% | 65.6% |
| WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WESTMORELAND | 230 | 25.7% | 70.6% |
| ERNEST C MYER SCHOOL HURLEY | 213 | 25.8% | 46.6% |
| WOODSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WOODSTOCK | 189 | 28.0% | 52.7% |
| GUARDINO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLAYTON | 243 | 23.9% | 44.2% |
| LAKE PLACID ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKE PLACID | 228 | 31.6% | 59.8% |
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 GLENDAAL SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Schenectady County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.6% | #540 of 2,335 | #4 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #633 of 2,342 ▲ 268 | #3 of 24 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #582 of 2,343 ▼ 201 | #5 of 24 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 224 | #2,310 of 2,585 | #22 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #1,186 of 2,338 | #14 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 23.5% | #2,033 of 2,388 | #22 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.4% | #2,083 of 2,534 | #20 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.8% | #473 of 606 | #5 of 7 |
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
224
+37 (+20%) vs 2020
-42% since 1990-91, when it was 389
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 224 | 19 | 11.8:1 | 25% (57) |
| 2023-24 | 210 | 20 | 10.5:1 | 18% (38) |
| 2022-23 | 196 | 17.8 | 11.0:1 | 23% (45) |
| 2020-21 | 187 | 13 | 14.4:1 | 12% (23) |
| 2017-18 | 218 | 17.1 | 12.8:1 | 11% (23) |
| 2015-16 | 238 | 15 | 15.9:1 | 14% (33) |
| 2010-11 | 284 | 21 | 13.5:1 | 8% (23) |
| 2000-01 | 367 | 21 | 17.5:1 | 8% (31) |
| 1990-91 | 389 | 21 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GLENDAAL SCHOOL.
About GLENDAAL SCHOOL
The public elementary school GLENDAAL SCHOOL is located in SCOTIA, New York. The school enrolls 224 students, from kindergarten through 5. Average enrollment for elementary schools in New York is about 443, so this school runs 49% smaller than that.
GLENDAAL SCHOOL is run by SCOTIA-GLENVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, whose 6 schools enroll 2,102 students.
White students make up 87% of enrollment at GLENDAAL SCHOOL. The next largest groups are 8% Hispanic and 4% Black. In Schenectady County overall, about 69% of residents are White. The school's diversity index is 23%, meaning two students picked at random have a 23% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Federal data list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers at GLENDAAL SCHOOL in 2024-25, for a ratio of 11.8:1. That is 1.1 students per teacher below the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 25%. On average, public schools in Schenectady County report 50%.
GLENDAAL SCHOOL is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 70% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
GLENDAAL SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 65.6%, compared with a predicted 65.6%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census Bureau estimates for Schenectady County show that the median household income is $79,623, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. There are 40 public schools in Schenectady County, enrolling about 21,555 students in all.
CHARLTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the closest public school, about 2.3 miles away in a straight line. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of GLENDAAL SCHOOL. By average proficiency, GLENDAAL SCHOOL is 5th among 9 schools close by.
In the federal locale system, GLENDAAL SCHOOL is coded Rural: Fringe, for schools in rural territory close to an urban area.
The school enrolled 224 students in 2024-25, 37 more than the 187 it had in 2020-21. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.4:1 in 2020-21 to 11.8:1 in 2024-25.
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Schenectady County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
160,369
Census ACS
Median income
$79,623
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
40
21,555 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SCOTIA-GLENVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SCOTIA-GLENVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 689 students
- SCOTIA-GLENVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 489 students
- SACANDAGA SCHOOLElementary · 319 students
- GLEN-WORDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 196 students
- LINCOLN SCHOOLElementary · 185 students
Other schools in SCOTIA
- SCOTIA-GLENVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 689 students
- SCOTIA-GLENVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 489 students
- PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 470 students
- SACANDAGA SCHOOLElementary · 319 students
- GLEN-WORDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 196 students
- LINCOLN SCHOOLElementary · 185 students
Nearby schools
- CHARLTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.3 mi · 498
- PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.9 mi · 470
- GLEN-WORDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.2 mi · 196
- RICHARD H O'ROURKE MIDDLE SCHOOL3.7 mi · 704
- SCOTIA-GLENVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL3.8 mi · 689
- SCOTIA-GLENVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL3.9 mi · 489
Frequently asked questions
About GLENDAAL SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at GLENDAAL SCHOOL?
GLENDAAL SCHOOL enrolls approximately 224 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does GLENDAAL SCHOOL serve?
GLENDAAL SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does GLENDAAL SCHOOL have?
GLENDAAL SCHOOL employs 19 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.8:1.
What is the student diversity at GLENDAAL SCHOOL?
Student demographics at GLENDAAL SCHOOL are roughly 87% White, 8% Hispanic, 4% Black, 1% Asian.
Is GLENDAAL SCHOOL public or private?
GLENDAAL SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by SCOTIA-GLENVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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