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Enrollment
486
Elementary
DISTRICT 438 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW HARTFORD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362037001877
HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
340 HIGBY RD, NEW HARTFORD, NY 13413 · (315) 738-9350 · Oneida County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL486 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 68% of New York public elementary schools
- A-Test 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
13.1:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
55 students
DISTRICT 19% · 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 | 61 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 85 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 28% smaller than its 6th grade class (85).
Student demographics
22%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 28% · 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
HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→PERRY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within NEW HARTFORD 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
69.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
76.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.0% | 76.0% |
| 2023-24 | 55.0% | 70.0% |
% 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
66.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% 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 HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (66.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 486 | 11.3% | 66.9% |
| LEDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLARENCE | 486 | 9.1% | 77.1% |
| HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PENFIELD | 479 | 14.6% | 73.9% |
| ROBERT L BRADLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW HARTFORD | 471 | 15.5% | 61.6% |
| SHERIDAN HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WILLIAMSVILLE | 527 | 10.1% | 70.6% |
| VOORHEESVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VOORHEESVILLE | 541 | 15.7% | 70.5% |
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 HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Oneida County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.9% | #494 of 2,335 | #4 of 37 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #501 of 2,342 ▲ 74 | #4 of 37 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #572 of 2,343 ▲ 112 | #3 of 37 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 486 | #896 of 2,585 | #10 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #1,656 of 2,338 | #31 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 21.6% | #2,070 of 2,388 | #25 of 39 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 11.3% | #2,410 of 2,534 | #40 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.5% | #536 of 606 | #13 of 14 |
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
486
+21 (+5%) vs 2020
-22% since 1990-91, when it was 620
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 12.2:1
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 | 486 | 37.1 | 13.1:1 | 11% (55) |
| 2023-24 | 472 | 36.9 | 12.8:1 | 11% (52) |
| 2022-23 | 453 | 35.5 | 12.8:1 | 16% (74) |
| 2020-21 | 465 | 38 | 12.2:1 | 10% (47) |
| 2017-18 | 479 | 34.5 | 13.9:1 | 9% (44) |
| 2015-16 | 489 | 33 | 14.8:1 | 12% (58) |
| 2010-11 | 503 | 35 | 14.4:1 | 6% (29) |
| 2000-01 | 492 | 34 | 14.5:1 | 4% (18) |
| 1990-91 | 620 | 37 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school for students in NEW HARTFORD, New York. The school offers kindergarten through 6 and enrolls 486 students.
NEW HARTFORD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which runs HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, has 5 schools and 2,466 students.
A large majority of enrollment at HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White, at 88%. It is also 5% Asian and 5% multiracial. Oneida County's residents are about 80% White, 8 points below the school's share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 22%.
Classroom staffing at HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL totals 37.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.1:1. The ratio is within a point of the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 11%. Compared with the 47% average for public schools in Oneida County, the school's rate is lower.
HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 68% of New York public elementary schools.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 70.8%. HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 66.9%.
In Oneida County, home to about 229,124 people, the median household earns about $70,154 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 28% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Public schools in Oneida County number 72, with about 32,265 students.
PERRY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 3rd of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Mid-size.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased from 465 to 486, a 5% rise.
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Oneida County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
229,124
Census ACS
Median income
$70,154
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
72
32,265 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEW HARTFORD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PERRY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 577 students
- NEW HARTFORD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 575 students
- ROBERT L BRADLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 471 students
- MYLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 357 students
Other schools in NEW HARTFORD
- ONEIDA-HERKIMER-MADISON BOCESCombined · 690 students
- PERRY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 577 students
- NEW HARTFORD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 575 students
- ROBERT L BRADLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 471 students
- MYLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 357 students
Other Hughes Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Hughes Elementary. HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Hughes Elementary SchoolMARSHALL, MI · 261 students
Nearby schools
- PERRY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 577
- HUGH R JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 371
- NEW HARTFORD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.4 mi · 575
- ROBERT L BRADLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 471
- JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 347
- WATSON WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 590
Frequently asked questions
About HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 486 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 13.1:1 students per teacher at HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 88% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 5% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW HARTFORD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.