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Enrollment
513
Elementary
DISTRICT 468 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOLLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361461004207
HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3800 N MAIN ST, HOLLEY, NY 14470 · (585) 638-6318 · Orleans County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL513 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 40% of New York public elementary schools
- C+Test 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
10.9:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
310 students
DISTRICT 60% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 47 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 78 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 35% smaller than its 6th grade class (78).
Student demographics
26%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 26% · 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
HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→HOLLEY JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within HOLLEY 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
50.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +16.0pp since 2023
Math
53.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.0% | 53.0% |
| 2023-24 | 34.0% | 49.0% |
% 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
44.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (44.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 513 | 60.4% | 44.9% |
| PENN YAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PENN YAN | 545 | 60.6% | 43.3% |
| HORNELL INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL HORNELL | 487 | 61.6% | 33.0% |
| TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CRARYVILLE | 503 | 61.2% | 48.7% |
| VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL BATH | 486 | 61.5% | 38.5% |
| SIDNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SIDNEY | 477 | 56.4% | 32.7% |
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 HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Orleans County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.9% | #1,398 of 2,335 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,333 of 2,342 ▲ 13 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,341 of 2,343 ▲ 227 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 513 | #764 of 2,585 | #2 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #804 of 2,338 | #3 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.8% | #1,984 of 2,388 | #4 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 60.4% | #1,151 of 2,534 | #1 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.7% | #1,363 of 1,757 | N/A |
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
513
-33 (-6%) vs 2020
-20% since 2000-01, when it was 640
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 513 | 47 | 10.9:1 | 60% (310) |
| 2023-24 | 516 | 47.5 | 10.9:1 | 59% (304) |
| 2022-23 | 543 | 47.4 | 11.5:1 | 56% (305) |
| 2020-21 | 546 | 43 | 12.7:1 | 57% (313) |
| 2017-18 | 550 | 43 | 12.8:1 | 58% (318) |
| 2015-16 | 568 | 39 | 14.6:1 | 60% (343) |
| 2010-11 | 642 | 45 | 14.3:1 | 48% (308) |
| 2000-01 | 640 | 51 | 12.6:1 | 38% (240) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school with its address in HOLLEY, New York. It offers pre-K through 6 and has 513 students enrolled.
The 2 schools in HOLLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT enroll 936 students altogether, HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
The share of students at HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL who are White is 86%. Other students are 8% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. Orleans County residents are about 86% White, a similar share. A diversity index of 26% means there is a 26% chance two randomly chosen students at HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio at HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 10.9:1, based on 47 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in New York, 12.8:1, is higher. HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL counts 60% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among New York public elementary schools, HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 40%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 7.9 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 44.9% actual, 52.8% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New York.
Census data for Orleans County show median household income comes to about $65,969, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 18%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. There are 13 public schools in the county, enrolling about 5,767, HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, HOLLEY JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, is about 0.3 miles. There are 6 other public schools within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 6th on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Rural: Distant. That means it sits in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
A 6% decline took enrollment from 546 in 2020-21 to 513 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (10.9:1) than in 2020-21 (12.7:1).
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Orleans County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
39,608
Census ACS
Median income
$65,969
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
13
5,767 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HOLLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HOLLEY JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 423 students
Other Holley Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Holley Elementary. HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Holley Elementary SchoolSweet Home, OR · 157 students
Nearby schools
- HOLLEY JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 423
- BROCKPORT HIGH SCHOOL4.1 mi · 995
- GINTHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.4 mi · 508
- A D OLIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL4.4 mi · 726
- BARCLAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.4 mi · 527
- FRED W HILL SCHOOL4.5 mi · 500
Frequently asked questions
About HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 513 students in grades PK-06.
Is HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 47 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.9:1.
What is the student diversity at HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 86% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by HOLLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Orleans County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.