Enrollment
234
Elementary
DISTRICT 289 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BEACON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360414000179
J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
125 LIBERTY ST, BEACON, NY 12508 · (845) 838-6900 · Dutchess County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL234 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 47% of New York public elementary schools
- B-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
9.2:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
75 students
DISTRICT 38% · 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 | 21 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 41 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 30 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 33 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 33 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 38 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 35 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 17% larger than its 5th grade class (35).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
Based on grade levels within BEACON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
61.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
50.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.0% | 50.0% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 48.0% |
% 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
53.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (53.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 234 | 32.1% | 53.0% |
| CENTRE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST ROCKAWAY | 239 | 31.8% | 56.3% |
| SARGENT SCHOOL BEACON | 285 | 35.1% | 45.6% |
| FRANKLIN AVENUE SCHOOL PEARL RIVER | 262 | 31.3% | 63.8% |
| EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LONG BEACH | 271 | 27.3% | 57.7% |
| SOUTH AVENUE SCHOOL BEACON | 244 | 36.9% | 49.1% |
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 V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Dutchess County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,046 of 2,335 | #16 of 36 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,443 of 2,342 ▼ 62 | #20 of 36 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #901 of 2,343 ▲ 52 | #10 of 36 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 234 | #2,279 of 2,585 | #39 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.2:1 | #209 of 2,338 | #4 of 42 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.4% | #500 of 2,388 | #9 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.1% | #1,923 of 2,534 | #27 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.7% | #773 of 1,757 | #10 of 24 |
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
234
0 (0%) vs 2020
-44% since 1990-91, when it was 419
Student : Teacher
9.2:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 234 | 25.5 | 9.2:1 | 32% (75) |
| 2023-24 | 230 | 24.6 | 9.4:1 | 39% (89) |
| 2022-23 | 224 | 20.6 | 10.9:1 | 38% (86) |
| 2020-21 | 234 | 21 | 11.1:1 | 38% (90) |
| 2017-18 | 281 | 18 | 15.6:1 | 49% (138) |
| 2015-16 | 284 | 18 | 15.8:1 | 54% (153) |
| 2010-11 | 330 | 19 | 17.4:1 | 49% (163) |
| 2000-01 | 362 | 26 | 13.9:1 | 43% (156) |
| 1990-91 | 419 | 31 | 13.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school found in BEACON, New York. Enrolled students number 234 students, in pre-K through 5. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average about 443 students each.
J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of BEACON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, where 6 schools serve 2,580 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The largest is White students, at 50%. The next largest groups are 28% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, and 6% Black. In Dutchess County overall, about 69% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 64% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL total 25.5 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 9.2:1. That is 3.7 students per teacher below the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 32%.
allk12 grades J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a B-. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 53.0%, compared with a predicted 63.2%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
Dutchess County has about 298,220 residents, and the median household income is $99,478, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. In all, Dutchess County has 76 public schools and roughly 36,885 students.
The closest other public school is ROMBOUT MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.6 miles away. J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 53.0% against a local average of 41.6%.
J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
The school's size has been steady, with 234 students in 2020-21 and 234 in 2024-25. Students per teacher fell from 11.1 in 2020-21 to 9.2 in 2024-25.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Dutchess County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
298,220
Census ACS
Median income
$99,478
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
76
36,885 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BEACON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- BEACON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 831 students
- ROMBOUT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 592 students
- GLENHAM SCHOOLElementary · 394 students
- SARGENT SCHOOLElementary · 285 students
- SOUTH AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 244 students
Other schools in BEACON
- BEACON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 831 students
- ROMBOUT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 592 students
- SARGENT SCHOOLElementary · 285 students
- SOUTH AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 244 students
Nearby schools
- ROMBOUT MIDDLE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 592
- BEACON HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 831
- SARGENT SCHOOL1.1 mi · 285
- SOUTH AVENUE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 244
- GLENHAM SCHOOL1.7 mi · 394
- HORIZON-ON-THE-HUDSON SCHOOL2.7 mi · 447
Frequently asked questions
About J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 234 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.2:1.
What is the student diversity at J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 50% White, 28% Hispanic, 6% Black, 1% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Who oversees J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
J V FORRESTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by BEACON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Dutchess County.
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