Enrollment
347
Elementary
DISTRICT 482 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362937003951
JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
24 PROSPECT ST, UTICA, NY 13501 · (315) 368-6620 · Oneida County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL347 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 16% 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.
- CBeats 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
11.2:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
278 students
DISTRICT 77% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 46 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 41 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 50 | 14% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 8% smaller than its 6th grade class (50).
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 78% · 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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
37.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
41.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 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 13 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.0% | 41.0% |
| 2023-24 | 24.0% | 28.0% |
% 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
30.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% 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 JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (30.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 347 | 80.1% | 30.7% |
| WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL BINGHAMTON | 355 | 82.0% | 35.5% |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UTICA | 390 | 79.5% | 34.3% |
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT SCHOOL BINGHAMTON | 352 | 80.7% | 18.4% |
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BINGHAMTON | 403 | 80.1% | 27.2% |
| 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 JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Oneida County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.7% | #1,993 of 2,335 | #31 of 37 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #1,830 of 2,342 ▲ 256 | #26 of 37 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #1,934 of 2,343 ▲ 123 | #27 of 37 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 347 | #1,691 of 2,585 | #23 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #933 of 2,338 | #12 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.4% | #40 of 2,388 | #6 of 39 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.1% | #768 of 2,534 | #4 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.0% | #404 of 1,757 | #4 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
347
-38 (-10%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 488
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 347 | 31 | 11.2:1 | 80% (278) |
| 2023-24 | 378 | 36 | 10.5:1 | 72% (272) |
| 2022-23 | 355 | 33 | 10.8:1 | 81% (288) |
| 2020-21 | 385 | 31 | 12.4:1 | 86% (332) |
| 2017-18 | 469 | 29 | 16.2:1 | 87% (408) |
| 2015-16 | 452 | 26 | 17.4:1 | 85% (382) |
| 2010-11 | 434 | 37 | 11.7:1 | 91% (393) |
| 2000-01 | 435 | 28 | 15.5:1 | 60% (259) |
| 1990-91 | 488 | 39 | 12.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Families in UTICA, New York, are served by JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a small elementary school. Enrollment is 347 students in 2024-25, and the school serves kindergarten through 6. The average for elementary schools in New York is about 443 students, so this school is 22% smaller than average.
JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits within UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 13 schools and 9,075 students.
JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has no majority group; Black students are the largest, at 31%. Beyond that, enrollment is 30% White, 20% Hispanic, 10% Asian, and 7% multiracial. In Oneida County overall, about 6% of residents are Black. JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's diversity index is 75%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1 at JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 1.6 below the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 80%. Across public schools in Oneida County, the average is 47%.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 45.5%. JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 30.7%.
Federal survey data for Oneida County show that the median household income is $70,154, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. There are 72 public schools in Oneida County, enrolling about 32,265 students in all.
Of nearby public schools, HUGH R JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the closest, at about 0.8 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On proficiency, JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is behind the 54.4% nearby average, ranking 8th of 8.
NCES describes the area around JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment declined 10% from its 2020-21 level of 385. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.4:1 in 2020-21 to 11.2:1 in 2024-25.
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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 UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- THOMAS R PROCTOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,820 students
- SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 749 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 687 students
- GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 634 students
- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 618 students
- WATSON WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 590 students
Other schools in UTICA
- THOMAS R PROCTOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,820 students
- SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 749 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 687 students
- GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 634 students
- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 618 students
- WATSON WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 590 students
Nearby schools
- HUGH R JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 371
- WATSON WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 590
- MOHAWK VALLEY PSYCHIATRIC CENTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH1.2 mi · 23
- SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 749
- NEW HARTFORD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.4 mi · 575
- ROBERT L BRADLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 471
Frequently asked questions
About JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 347 students in grades KG-06.
Is JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.2:1 students per teacher at JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 30% White, 20% Hispanic, 31% Black, 10% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Oneida County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.