Enrollment
191
Elementary
DISTRICT 209 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREENWOOD LAKE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361296004389
GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
80 WATERSTONE RD, GREENWOOD LAKE, NY 10925 · (845) 477-2411 · Orange County
GRADES PK–03ELEMENTARY31-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL191 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 89% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
10.9:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
47 students
DISTRICT 29% · 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 | 20 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 32 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 39 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 29% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 23% |
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→GREENWOOD LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
77.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
91.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 91 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.0% | 91.0% |
| 2023-24 | 67.0% | 83.0% |
% 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
79.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% 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 GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (79.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 191 | 24.6% | 79.5% |
| BAYVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL BAYVILLE | 167 | 20.4% | 69.8% |
| TUTTLE AVENUE SCHOOL EASTPORT | 233 | 25.8% | N/A |
| BRIARWOOD SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 170 | 24.7% | 75.8% |
| ERNEST C MYER SCHOOL HURLEY | 213 | 25.8% | 46.6% |
| ELM DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MILLBROOK | 167 | 17.4% | N/A |
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 GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.5% | #181 of 2,335 | #3 of 40 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 91.0% | #121 of 2,342 ▲ 108 | #2 of 40 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #331 of 2,343 ▼ 5 | #4 of 40 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 191 | #2,408 of 2,585 | #44 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.6% | #2,112 of 2,534 | #38 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.9% | #1,421 of 1,757 | #24 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
191
+32 (+20%) vs 2020
-37% since 1990-91, when it was 304
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 8.4:1
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 | 191 | 17.5 | 10.9:1 | 25% (47) |
| 2023-24 | 191 | 16.1 | 11.9:1 | 25% (47) |
| 2022-23 | 173 | 15.6 | 11.1:1 | 24% (41) |
| 2020-21 | 159 | 19 | 8.4:1 | 30% (47) |
| 2017-18 | 203 | 21 | 9.7:1 | 29% (58) |
| 2015-16 | 232 | 18 | 12.9:1 | 25% (59) |
| 2010-11 | 240 | 18 | 13.3:1 | 33% (79) |
| 2000-01 | 254 | 19 | 13.4:1 | 17% (42) |
| 1990-91 | 304 | 20 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public elementary school run by GREENWOOD LAKE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in GREENWOOD LAKE, New York. A federal count lists 191 students at the school, in pre-K through 3. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New York) has about 443 students.
GREENWOOD LAKE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT has 2 schools; together they serve 417 students.
At 68%, White students outnumber all other groups at GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL combined. The school is also 25% Hispanic, 3% Black, and 3% multiracial. GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 48%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 17.5 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 10.9:1. That ratio is under the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 25%. The 44% average for public schools in Orange County is 19 points higher.
allk12 grades GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an A. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On BeatsExpectations, GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 13.6 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
According to the American Community Survey, in Orange County, median household income is about $97,178, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 82 public schools operate in Orange County, serving about 57,122 students.
The shortest distance from GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to another public school is about 3.5 miles, to PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The five-mile area around GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds 2 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 64.5% proficiency; GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 79.5%.
NCES assigns GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale Town: Fringe, meaning in a town close to an urbanized area.
The student count in 2024-25 was 191, 20% above the 159 of 2020-21. The school's ratio rose from 8.4:1 to 10.9:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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 GREENWOOD LAKE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- GREENWOOD LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 226 students
Nearby schools
- PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.5 mi · 456
- GREENWOOD LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL3.6 mi · 226
- SANFORDVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.1 mi · 791
- WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL5.2 mi · 1,069
- WARWICK VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL5.2 mi · 1,314
- Upper Greenwood Lake Elementary School5.5 mi · 250
Frequently asked questions
About GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 191 students in grades PK-03.
What age range does GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 03.
How many students per teacher at GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.9:1 students per teacher at GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 68% White, 25% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by GREENWOOD LAKE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Orange County.
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