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Which teacher or staff member at HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
479
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362271003194
HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2126 PENFIELD RD, PENFIELD, NY 14526 · (585) 249-6600 · Monroe County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL479 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 81% 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.
- 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
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
70 students
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 58%
Community
1
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 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 7% larger than its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 35% · 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 PENFIELD 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
77.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
81.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.0pp 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 81 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.0% | 81.0% |
| 2023-24 | 65.0% | 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
73.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (73.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 479 | 14.6% | 73.9% |
| ROBERT L BRADLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW HARTFORD | 471 | 15.5% | 61.6% |
| HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW HARTFORD | 486 | 11.3% | 66.9% |
| EAGLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DELMAR | 446 | 17.9% | 72.5% |
| CHANGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BALLSTON LAKE | 510 | 16.5% | 76.7% |
| SLINGERLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DELMAR | 422 | 14.5% | 69.6% |
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 HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Monroe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.9% | #284 of 2,335 | #5 of 97 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #336 of 2,342 ▼ 100 | #6 of 97 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #336 of 2,343 ▲ 42 | #5 of 97 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 479 | #923 of 2,585 | #40 of 106 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #780 of 2,338 | #36 of 99 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.5% | #1,944 of 2,388 | #96 of 99 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.6% | #2,350 of 2,534 | #99 of 106 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.7% | #527 of 606 | #26 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
479
+65 (+16%) vs 2020
-26% since 1990-91, when it was 649
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 10.6:1
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 | 479 | 44 | 10.9:1 | 15% (70) |
| 2023-24 | 451 | 44 | 10.3:1 | 14% (61) |
| 2022-23 | 427 | 36.3 | 11.8:1 | 16% (67) |
| 2020-21 | 414 | 39 | 10.6:1 | 14% (59) |
| 2017-18 | 471 | 42 | 11.2:1 | 17% (82) |
| 2015-16 | 474 | 40 | 11.8:1 | 14% (65) |
| 2010-11 | 507 | 45 | 11.3:1 | 5% (27) |
| 2000-01 | 595 | 42 | 14.2:1 | 4% (23) |
| 1990-91 | 649 | 44 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a medium-sized elementary school, HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students in PENFIELD, New York. The school reports 479 students in kindergarten through 5.
PENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT counts 6 schools and 4,651 students, including HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
The large majority of students at HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 85%, are White. Other reported shares: 6% Asian, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 2% Black. Monroe County's residents are about 70% White, 15 points below the school's share. The chance that two students picked at random at HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 27%.
Its 44 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 10.9:1. That ratio is under the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 15%. That rate is below the 50% average among public schools in Monroe County.
The allk12 Grade for HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is A-. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 81% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would score about 69.6%. It scores 73.9%, 4.3 points above that figure.
Within Monroe County, median household income is about $76,382, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Monroe County number 186 and enroll about 106,108.
The next-closest public school is PENFIELD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, about 1.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts put enrollment at 414 in 2020-21 and 479 in 2024-25, a 16% rise.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Monroe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
753,753
Census ACS
Median income
$76,382
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
186
106,108 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PENFIELD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,442 students
- BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,094 students
- SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 549 students
- INDIAN LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 545 students
- COBBLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 542 students
Other schools in PENFIELD
- PENFIELD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,442 students
- BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,094 students
- SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 549 students
- COBBLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 542 students
Other Harris Hill Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Harris Hill Elementary. HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWILLIAMSVILLE, NY · 452 students
Nearby schools
- PENFIELD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 1,442
- COBBLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 542
- MONROE 1 BOCES2.0 mi · 582
- BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL2.4 mi · 1,094
- SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.5 mi · 549
- JOHANNA PERRIN MIDDLE SCHOOL2.8 mi · 572
Frequently asked questions
About HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 479 students in grades KG-05.
Is HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 44 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.9:1.
What is the student diversity at HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 85% White, 4% Hispanic, 2% Black, 6% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of PENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.