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HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)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.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Located at 3800 N MAIN ST, in HOLLEY, New York, HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized primary school that serves 513 students (grades pre-K through 6), overseen by HOLLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Across the 2 schools in HOLLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (936 students total), HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.8%, the actual is 44.9%, a residual of -7.9 points.
Zooming out to the county, Orleans County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,969 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Orleans County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,767 students), HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
HOLLEY JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 52.4%.
Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 550 students in 2018 compared to 513 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.
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