Enrollment
335
Elementary
DISTRICT 363 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FLORIDA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362532004329
GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY
478 ROUND HILL RD, FLORIDA, NY 10921 · (845) 651-3095 · Orange County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL335 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 49% 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.
- C+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
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
112 students
DISTRICT 34% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 37 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 39 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is 32% smaller than its 5th grade class (57).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY→S S SEWARD INSTITUTE
Based on grade levels within FLORIDA UNION FREE 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
62.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
55.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.0% | 55.0% |
| 2023-24 | 49.0% | 54.0% |
% 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
53.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY
GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY's state test result (53.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY this school | 335 | 33.4% | 53.7% |
| MAUD S SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ISLIP | 366 | 33.1% | 51.0% |
| RHAME AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST ROCKAWAY | 330 | 30.9% | 44.1% |
| WEST ROAD/D'AQUANNIS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL PLEASANT VALLEY | 354 | 32.2% | 46.3% |
| KINRY ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL POUGHKEEPSIE | 368 | 34.0% | 61.2% |
| BOYLE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PORT JEFFERSON STA | 306 | 31.0% | 41.3% |
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 GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.7% | #1,017 of 2,335 | #8 of 40 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #1,262 of 2,342 ▼ 107 | #14 of 40 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #866 of 2,343 ▲ 61 | #9 of 40 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 335 | #1,770 of 2,585 | #39 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #1,164 of 2,338 | #21 of 43 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.7% | #897 of 2,388 | #22 of 43 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.4% | #1,887 of 2,534 | #31 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.8% | #1,037 of 1,757 | #12 of 31 |
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
335
-6 (-2%) vs 2020
-16% since 1990-91, when it was 399
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 335 | 28.5 | 11.8:1 | 33% (112) |
| 2023-24 | 339 | 27.4 | 12.4:1 | 35% (118) |
| 2022-23 | 319 | 18.8 | 16.9:1 | 34% (108) |
| 2020-21 | 341 | 33 | 10.3:1 | 28% (94) |
| 2017-18 | 380 | 31.8 | 11.9:1 | 27% (103) |
| 2015-16 | 383 | 32 | 12.0:1 | 26% (101) |
| 2010-11 | 379 | 31 | 12.2:1 | 18% (68) |
| 2000-01 | 397 | 23 | 17.3:1 | 16% (62) |
| 1990-91 | 399 | 25 | 16.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY.
About GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY
GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY is a small elementary school based in FLORIDA, New York. Enrollment stands at 335 students, covering pre-K through 5. That is 24% below the average of about 443 students for elementary schools in New York.
FLORIDA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT is the district for GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY. It has 2 schools and 726 students.
More than half of enrollment at GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY is White: 59%. The remaining shares are 29% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 3% multiracial. In Orange County overall, the White share is about 62%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY scores 57%.
The school has 28.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 11.8 students per teacher. Elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1, 1.1 more students per teacher than here. Of all students at GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY, 33% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Orange County average 44%.
GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 49% of New York public elementary schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY would be expected to post about 62.7%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 53.7%.
Looking at the county, Orange County, the median household earns about $97,178 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 33%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Orange County has 82 public schools with about 57,122 students, including GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY.
The closest school to GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY is S S SEWARD INSTITUTE, located about 0.6 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is 3. On proficiency, GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY is behind the 63.5% nearby average, ranking 6th of 7.
NCES lists the school's locale as Rural: Fringe. That means it sits in rural territory close to an urban area.
Federal data show 341 students in 2020-21 and 335 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 10.3:1; by 2024-25 it was 11.8:1.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
406,616
Census ACS
Median income
$97,178
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
82
57,122 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FLORIDA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- S S SEWARD INSTITUTEHigh · 391 students
Nearby schools
- S S SEWARD INSTITUTE0.6 mi · 391
- GOSHEN SECURE CENTER2.4 mi · 51
- ORANGE-ULSTER BOCES3.7 mi · 1,082
- CHESTER ACADEMY-MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL5.4 mi · 538
- WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL5.5 mi · 1,069
- CHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.5 mi · 393
Frequently asked questions
About GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARYHow many students attend GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY?
GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 335 students in grades PK-05.
Is GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY an elementary, middle, or high school?
GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY have?
GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.8:1.
What is the student diversity at GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY?
Student demographics at GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY are roughly 59% White, 29% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY in?
GOLDEN HILL ELEMENTARY is part of FLORIDA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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