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JOHNSON CITY ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
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Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)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 35 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About JOHNSON CITY ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
Located at 601 COLUMBIA DR, in JOHNSON CITY, New York, JOHNSON CITY ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is a reasonably sized elementary-level community that works with 509 students (grades 3 through 5), overseen by JOHNSON CITY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Within JOHNSON CITY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 4 schools and 2,281 students, JOHNSON CITY ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
Demographically, JOHNSON CITY ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL logs that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 16% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 12% Black, 11% Asian. By comparison, Broome County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, JOHNSON CITY ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.4:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Broome County's rate of about 52%.
After controlling for student poverty, JOHNSON CITY ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.7%; this one delivers 31.8%.
In the surrounding community, Broome County reports that median household earnings sit near $62,616, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Broome County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,594 students), of which JOHNSON CITY ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one.
JOHNSON CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOHNSON CITY ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JOHNSON CITY ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 45.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JOHNSON CITY ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL has shrank 8%, going from 552 students in 2018 to 509 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 58% to 48%. Class-load math has rose: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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