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Enrollment
364
Elementary
DISTRICT 297 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AUSABLE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361617001397
KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL
1825 RT 22, KEESEVILLE, NY 12944 · (518) 834-2839 · Clinton County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL364 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 30% 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
12.1:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
155 students
DISTRICT 48% · 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 | 20 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 49 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 50 | 14% |
| Ungraded | 5 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 10% smaller than its 6th grade class (50).
Student demographics
6%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 8% · 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 AUSABLE VALLEY 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
46.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
51.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 are up about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.0% | 51.0% |
| 2023-24 | 34.0% | 45.0% |
% 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
43.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL
KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL's state test result (43.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL this school | 364 | 42.6% | 43.6% |
| MEXICO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MEXICO | 362 | 42.0% | 33.2% |
| SAINT LAWRENCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRASHER FALLS | 369 | 43.4% | 42.7% |
| MORRISONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MORRISONVILLE | 358 | 40.5% | 25.8% |
| NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORWOOD | 341 | 43.7% | 40.2% |
| PALMYRA-MACEDON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL MACEDON | 339 | 43.4% | 39.2% |
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 KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Clinton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.6% | #1,454 of 2,335 | #4 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #1,411 of 2,342 ▲ 84 | #4 of 12 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #1,517 of 2,343 ▲ 58 | #4 of 12 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 364 | #1,587 of 2,585 | #6 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #1,322 of 2,338 | #11 of 13 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 6.4% | #2,357 of 2,388 | #11 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.6% | #1,618 of 2,534 | #9 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.7% | #1,620 of 1,757 | #8 of 9 |
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
364
-27 (-7%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 558
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 364 | 30 | 12.1:1 | 43% (155) |
| 2023-24 | 403 | 28.9 | 13.9:1 | 51% (204) |
| 2022-23 | 413 | 32.9 | 12.6:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 391 | 28 | 14.0:1 | 48% (188) |
| 2017-18 | 374 | 35 | 10.7:1 | 63% (237) |
| 2015-16 | 377 | 31 | 12.2:1 | 57% (216) |
| 2010-11 | 380 | 29 | 13.1:1 | 52% (197) |
| 2000-01 | 476 | 38 | 12.5:1 | 45% (215) |
| 1990-91 | 558 | 37 | 15.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL.
About KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL
In KEESEVILLE, New York, KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary school. It has an enrollment of 364 students in pre-K through 6.
District-wide, AUSABLE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT has 4 schools and 1,087 students.
A large majority of enrollment at KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL is White, at 97%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL scores 6%.
KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 12.1:1. The school's 12.1:1 compares with an average of 12.8:1 for elementary schools in New York. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 43%.
KEESEVILLE PRIMARY 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 30% of New York public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 59.3% for KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL. The school posts 43.6%, 15.8 points below the prediction.
For Clinton County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $71,224 a year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Clinton County number 29, with about 10,729 students.
Of the public schools around it, KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL is closest to PERU MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 5.6 miles away. Inside a ten-mile radius, there are 5 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL places 6th out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
The NCES locale for KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL is Rural: Distant, which covers schools in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
The school's student count fell 7% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 12.1:1, from 14.0:1.
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Clinton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
78,493
Census ACS
Median income
$71,224
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
29
10,729 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in AUSABLE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- AUSABLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 342 students
- AUSABLE FORKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 229 students
- AUSABLE VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 152 students
Nearby schools
- PERU MIDDLE SCHOOL5.6 mi · 406
- PERU HIGH SCHOOL5.6 mi · 555
- PERU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.6 mi · 832
- AUSABLE VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL5.9 mi · 152
- AUSABLE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL5.9 mi · 342
- WILLSBORO CENTRAL SCHOOL10.3 mi · 246
Frequently asked questions
About KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOLHow large is KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL?
KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 364 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL serve?
KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.1:1 students per teacher at KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL?
KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 97% White, 1% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL public or private?
KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by AUSABLE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.