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How has JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
413
Elementary
DISTRICT 416 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GALWAY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361173000939
JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
5317 SACANDAGA RD, GALWAY, NY 12074 · (518) 882-1033 · Saratoga County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL413 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 68% 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.
- BBeats 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
11.1:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.8:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
139 students
DISTRICT 35% · 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 | 44 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 5% smaller than its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
8%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 6% · 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
JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→GALWAY JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within GALWAY 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
68.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
70.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.0% | 70.0% |
| 2023-24 | 56.0% | 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
62.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% 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 JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (62.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 413 | 33.7% | 62.9% |
| MINETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MINETTO | 409 | 33.5% | 46.3% |
| TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SOUTH GLENS FALLS | 425 | 35.5% | 36.3% |
| MAYFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MAYFIELD | 430 | 32.6% | 51.0% |
| MEMORIAL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WATERVILLE | 415 | 36.1% | 40.3% |
| NORTHERN ADIRONDACK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ELLENBURG DEPOT | 375 | 35.2% | 37.3% |
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 JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Saratoga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.9% | #639 of 2,335 | #14 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #712 of 2,342 ▼ 141 | #16 of 30 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #611 of 2,343 ▲ 40 | #11 of 30 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 413 | #1,293 of 2,585 | #17 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #894 of 2,338 | #4 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 7.5% | #2,346 of 2,388 | #28 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.7% | #1,881 of 2,534 | #10 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.9% | #1,663 of 1,757 | #21 of 21 |
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
413
-18 (-4%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 640
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 9.4:1
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 | 413 | 37.2 | 11.1:1 | 34% (139) |
| 2023-24 | 418 | 37.5 | 11.2:1 | 30% (127) |
| 2022-23 | 403 | 39.7 | 10.2:1 | 29% (115) |
| 2020-21 | 431 | 46 | 9.4:1 | 32% (139) |
| 2017-18 | 421 | 39 | 10.8:1 | 36% (152) |
| 2015-16 | 424 | 38 | 11.2:1 | 31% (131) |
| 2010-11 | 439 | 42 | 10.4:1 | 25% (111) |
| 2000-01 | 578 | 40 | 14.4:1 | 21% (124) |
| 1990-91 | 640 | 37 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in GALWAY, New York, reachable at (518) 882-1033. The grade span is pre-K through 5, and enrollment is 413 students.
GALWAY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 832 students, and its 2 schools include JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
The large majority of students at JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 96%, are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 2% multiracial. The White share of the county population is lower, at 88%. JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 8%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
With 37.2 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL was 11.1:1. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is higher than this school's figure. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 34%.
allk12 grades JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a B+. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 62.9% and a predicted 62.6%.
Saratoga County has about 238,284 residents, and median household income is about $100,787, roughly 45% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Saratoga County number 50 and enroll about 30,097.
Nearby, GALWAY JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is less than a tenth of a mile away. Other public schools within ten miles number at least 8. JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 3rd of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Locale data from NCES put JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in rural territory some distance from an urban area (Rural: Distant).
Federal counts put enrollment at 431 in 2020-21 and 413 in 2024-25, a 4% decrease. Federal data show the ratio rising from 9.4:1 to 11.1:1.
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Saratoga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
238,284
Census ACS
Median income
$100,787
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
50
30,097 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in GALWAY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- GALWAY JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 419 students
Nearby schools
- GALWAY JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 419
- BROADALBIN-PERTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL7.9 mi · 879
- BROADALBIN-PERTH JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL8.1 mi · 756
- WILLIAM B TECLER ARTS IN EDUCATION8.2 mi · 465
- AMSTERDAM HIGH SCHOOL8.3 mi · 1,192
- WOOD ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL8.6 mi · 477
Frequently asked questions
About JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 413 students in grades PK-05.
Is JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.1:1.
What is the student diversity at JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 96% White, 1% Hispanic, 0% Black, 2% Two or more.
Is JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
JOSEPH HENRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by GALWAY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.