Enrollment
390
Elementary
DISTRICT 385 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362601003580
HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1065 BAKER AVE, SCHENECTADY, NY 12308 · (518) 370-8295 · Schenectady County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL390 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 12% 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.
- 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
11.5:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
308 students
DISTRICT 80% · 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 | 33 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 14% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 19% larger than its 5th grade class (54).
Student demographics
81%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 79% · 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
36.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
33.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +9.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 up about 9 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.0% | 33.0% |
| 2023-24 | 24.0% | 24.0% |
% 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
28.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (28.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 390 | 79.0% | 28.7% |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UTICA | 390 | 79.5% | 34.3% |
| JESSIE T ZOLLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 439 | 75.6% | 41.0% |
| SCHOOL 15-CHILDREN'S SCHOOL OF ROCHESTER (THE) ROCHESTER | 384 | 74.0% | 30.9% |
| PS 193 GIL HODGES BROOKLYN | 487 | 77.4% | 51.8% |
| YATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 327 | 83.2% | 33.3% |
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 HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Schenectady County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.7% | #2,060 of 2,335 | #17 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #2,038 of 2,342 ▲ 114 | #17 of 24 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #1,970 of 2,343 ▲ 84 | #18 of 24 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 390 | #1,421 of 2,585 | #10 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #1,061 of 2,338 | #12 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 80.5% | #1 of 2,388 | #1 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.0% | #801 of 2,534 | #9 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.8% | #1,729 of 1,757 | #16 of 17 |
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
390
+19 (+5%) vs 2020
+25% since 1990-91, when it was 312
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 11.6:1
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 | 390 | 33.9 | 11.5:1 | 79% (308) |
| 2023-24 | 414 | 33.7 | 12.3:1 | 71% (294) |
| 2022-23 | 363 | 34.5 | 10.5:1 | 69% (250) |
| 2020-21 | 371 | 32 | 11.6:1 | 65% (240) |
| 2017-18 | 393 | 24 | 16.4:1 | 69% (270) |
| 2015-16 | 307 | 17 | 18.1:1 | 48% (148) |
| 2010-11 | 120 | 8 | 15.0:1 | 60% (72) |
| 2000-01 | 321 | 23 | 14.0:1 | 48% (153) |
| 1990-91 | 312 | 24 | 13.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school in SCHENECTADY, New York. It reported 390 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT is responsible for 15 schools, HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL included, with 8,948 students in all.
About 22% of students at HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Hispanic, the largest single group. After that, the student body is 22% White, 21% Black, 17% Asian, and 16% multiracial. Among all residents of Schenectady County, the Hispanic share is about 8%. A diversity index of 81% means there is an 81% chance two randomly chosen students at HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a ratio of 11.5 students per teacher, from 33.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is 12.8:1. Lunch program data show 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is 29 points above the 50% average for public schools in Schenectady County.
On the allk12 Grade, HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at D, ahead of 12% of New York public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 17.3 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
Census data for Schenectady County show the median household earns about $79,623 a year, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Public schools in Schenectady County number 40, with about 21,555 students.
VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.5 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 8th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Small.
Enrollment figures show a rise of 19 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Schenectady County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
160,369
Census ACS
Median income
$79,623
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
40
21,555 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,885 students
- ONEIDA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 657 students
- CENTRAL PARK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 600 students
- MONT PLEASANT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 569 students
- WOODLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 502 students
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Other schools in SCHENECTADY
- SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,885 students
- NISKAYUNA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,379 students
- MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 924 students
- JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 671 students
- ONEIDA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 657 students
- DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 655 students
Other Howe Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 8 states are named Howe Elementary. HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 3rd largest of the 10.
- Howe Elementary SchoolHowe, OK · 447 students
- Howe Elementary SchoolPittsburgh, PA · 398 students
- Howe ElementaryGreen Bay, WI · 350 students
- Howe Elementary SchoolChicago, IL · 341 students
- Howe ElementaryWisconsin Rapids, WI · 336 students
Nearby schools
- VAN ANTWERP MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 442
- HILLSIDE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 383
- SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 2,885
- CENTRAL PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 600
- JESSIE T ZOLLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 439
- ONEIDA MIDDLE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 657
Frequently asked questions
About HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 390 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 11.5:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 22% White, 22% Hispanic, 21% Black, 17% Asian, 16% Two or more.
Who oversees HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Schenectady County.
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