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What's one thing J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
414
Elementary
DISTRICT 321 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SHERRILL CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362676003652
J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
5647 E MAIN ST, VERONA, NY 13478 · (315) 829-2520 · Oneida County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY42-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL414 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 32% 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
12.2:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
142 students
DISTRICT 29% · 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 | 31 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 50 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 53 | 13% |
| Ungraded | 6 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 6% smaller than its 6th grade class (53).
Student demographics
22%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 18% · 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
J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→VERNON-VERONA-SHERRILL MIDDLE SCHOOL→VERNON-VERONA-SHERRILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within SHERRILL CITY 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
42.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
52.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.0% | 52.0% |
| 2023-24 | 37.0% | 56.0% |
% 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
46.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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 J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (46.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 414 | 34.3% | 46.2% |
| WAYNE CENTRAL PRIMARY SCHOOL ONTARIO CENTER | 434 | 35.0% | N/A |
| MINETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MINETTO | 409 | 33.5% | 46.3% |
| HOMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOMER | 430 | 31.4% | N/A |
| KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OSWEGO | 397 | 32.2% | 42.7% |
| G N CHAPMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RANDOLPH | 428 | 37.6% | 48.1% |
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 J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Oneida County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.2% | #1,331 of 2,335 | #15 of 37 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #1,382 of 2,342 ▼ 289 | #15 of 37 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #1,717 of 2,343 ▼ 254 | #21 of 37 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 414 | #1,286 of 2,585 | #15 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #1,343 of 2,338 | #23 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.1% | #2,059 of 2,388 | #24 of 39 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.3% | #1,863 of 2,534 | #24 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.0% | #1,151 of 1,757 | #18 of 25 |
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
414
+2 (+0%) vs 2020
-36% since 1990-91, when it was 651
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 414 | 33.9 | 12.2:1 | 34% (142) |
| 2023-24 | 413 | 38.8 | 10.7:1 | 43% (176) |
| 2022-23 | 412 | 37.7 | 10.9:1 | 43% (178) |
| 2020-21 | 412 | 35 | 11.8:1 | 43% (177) |
| 2017-18 | 460 | 36 | 12.8:1 | 45% (207) |
| 2015-16 | 461 | 32 | 14.4:1 | 36% (167) |
| 2010-11 | 448 | 34 | 13.2:1 | 40% (178) |
| 2000-01 | 499 | 35 | 14.3:1 | 44% (220) |
| 1990-91 | 651 | 41 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school in VERONA, New York, administered by SHERRILL CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school runs pre-K through 6 and enrolls 414 students.
SHERRILL CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT counts 1,823 students in its 5 schools, and J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of them.
J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 88% White by enrollment. Next come 6% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 22%.
The school has 33.9 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 12.2 students per teacher. It is about the same as the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. The school reported 34% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is lower than the 47% average for public schools in Oneida County.
J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 32% of New York public elementary schools.
In New York, J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 46.2% actual against a predicted 62.4%.
In the surrounding county, Oneida County, the median household earns about $70,154 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Counting J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Oneida County has 72 public schools.
Measured in a straight line, MADISON-ONEIDA BOCES is about 0.9 miles from J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: 7. The nearest schools with test data average 50.3%, higher than J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 46.2%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Rural: Distant: in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Enrollment at J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL was 412 in 2020-21 and 414 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%.
The allk12 page for J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 SHERRILL CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- VERNON-VERONA-SHERRILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 584 students
- E A MCALLISTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 287 students
- VERNON-VERONA-SHERRILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 276 students
- W A WETTEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 262 students
Other schools in VERONA
- VERNON-VERONA-SHERRILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 584 students
- MADISON-ONEIDA BOCESCombined · 407 students
- VERNON-VERONA-SHERRILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 276 students
Nearby schools
- MADISON-ONEIDA BOCES0.9 mi · 407
- VERNON-VERONA-SHERRILL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.4 mi · 584
- VERNON-VERONA-SHERRILL MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 276
- E A MCALLISTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.6 mi · 287
- W A WETTEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.7 mi · 262
- W F PRIOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.7 mi · 318
Frequently asked questions
About J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 414 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 12.2:1 (34 FTE teachers).
How diverse is J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 88% White, 6% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by SHERRILL CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.