Enrollment
237
Elementary
DISTRICT 340 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POUGHKEEPSIE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362376003305
GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL
100 MONTGOMERY ST, POUGHKEEPSIE, NY 12601 · (845) 451-4600 · Dutchess County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL237 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 16% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
11.7:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
202 students
DISTRICT 85% · 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 | 4 | 2% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 27% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 36 | 15% |
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
33.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
27.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 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 down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.0% | 27.0% |
| 2023-24 | 22.0% | 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
29.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL
GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL's state test result (29.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL this school | 237 | 85.2% | 29.0% |
| PS 245 BROOKLYN | 228 | 89.9% | 50.3% |
| BROWNSVILLE COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 202 | 87.1% | 90.0% |
| PS 307 DANIEL HALE WILLIAMS BROOKLYN | 270 | 84.1% | 20.9% |
| PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) BROOKLYN | 194 | 86.1% | 42.5% |
| SOUTH BRONX CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL II BRONX | 248 | 91.5% | 90.7% |
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 GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Dutchess County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.0% | #2,048 of 2,335 | #32 of 36 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #2,159 of 2,342 ▼ 168 | #34 of 36 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #2,051 of 2,343 ▲ 63 | #32 of 36 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 237 | #2,268 of 2,585 | #38 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #1,158 of 2,338 | #24 of 42 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.0% | #668 of 2,388 | #15 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.2% | #605 of 2,534 | #3 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.2% | #397 of 1,757 | #4 of 24 |
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
237
-61 (-20%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 342
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 15.7:1
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 | 237 | 20.2 | 11.7:1 | 85% (202) |
| 2023-24 | 255 | 20.3 | 12.5:1 | 75% (192) |
| 2022-23 | 222 | 19.3 | 11.5:1 | 77% (170) |
| 2020-21 | 298 | 19 | 15.7:1 | 72% (215) |
| 2017-18 | 321 | 23 | 14.0:1 | 74% (236) |
| 2015-16 | 338 | 22 | 15.4:1 | 81% (275) |
| 2010-11 | 400 | 25 | 16.0:1 | 80% (318) |
| 2000-01 | 411 | 23 | 17.9:1 | 87% (358) |
| 1990-91 | 342 | 27 | 12.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL.
About GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL
In POUGHKEEPSIE, New York, part of Dutchess County, GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL is an elementary school. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 237 students. The average among elementary schools in New York is roughly 443 students; this school is 47% smaller than that.
District-wide, POUGHKEEPSIE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT has 7 schools and 3,724 students.
Federal enrollment data show Black students as the largest group at GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL, at 45%. Enrollment also includes 42% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 4% White. Among people living in Dutchess County, the Black share is about 10%. The school's diversity index is 61%, meaning two students picked at random have a 61% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Teacher staffing is 20.2 full-time equivalents, or about 11.7 students per teacher. On average, elementary schools in New York have 12.8:1, compared with 11.7:1 here. About 85% of students, or 202, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Dutchess County is 40%.
GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 16% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (29.0%) and its predicted rate (43.6%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of New York schools.
Dutchess County has these Census figures: the median household income is $99,478, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. In all, Dutchess County has 76 public schools and roughly 36,885 students.
Of nearby public schools, S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the closest, at about 0.6 miles. GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 36.6% proficiency; GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL posts 29.0%.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Small.
GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL's enrollment dropped from 298 in 2020-21 to 237 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 15.7:1; by 2024-25 it was 11.7:1.
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Dutchess County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
298,220
Census ACS
Median income
$99,478
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
76
36,885 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in POUGHKEEPSIE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- POUGHKEEPSIE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,151 students
- POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 871 students
- S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 432 students
- G W KRIEGER SCHOOLElementary · 419 students
- SMITH EARLY LEARNING CENTERElementary · 328 students
- CHARLES B WARRING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 286 students
Other schools in POUGHKEEPSIE
- POUGHKEEPSIE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,151 students
- POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 871 students
- SPACKENKILL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 537 students
- ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOLElementary · 496 students
- OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 455 students
- S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 432 students
Nearby schools
- S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 432
- SMITH EARLY LEARNING CENTER0.7 mi · 328
- CHARLES B WARRING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 286
- POUGHKEEPSIE HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,151
- LITTLE WATER PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL0.8 mi · 202
- POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 871
Frequently asked questions
About GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL?
GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL enrolls approximately 237 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL serve?
GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL is approximately 11.7:1 (20 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL?
At GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 4% White, 42% Hispanic, 45% Black, 8% Two or more.
Is GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL public or private?
GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by POUGHKEEPSIE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.