Enrollment
263
Elementary
DISTRICT 245 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GLENS FALLS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361224000983
KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL
43 KENSINGTON RD, GLENS FALLS, NY 12801 · (518) 793-5151 · Warren County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL263 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 86% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
11.1:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
71 students
DISTRICT 47% · 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 | 18 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 37 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 45 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 23% |
| Ungraded | 7 | 3% |
This year's kindergarten class (37) is 38% smaller than its 4th grade class (60).
Student demographics
12%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · 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 GLENS FALLS CITY 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
82.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
77.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.0% | 77.0% |
| 2023-24 | 68.0% | 73.0% |
% 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
75.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL
KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL's state test result (75.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL this school | 263 | 27.0% | 75.3% |
| POLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL POLAND | 256 | 26.2% | 62.2% |
| COURT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LANCASTER | 285 | 24.9% | 70.3% |
| PETERBORO STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CANASTOTA | 260 | 30.8% | N/A |
| GUARDINO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLAYTON | 243 | 23.9% | 44.2% |
| WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WESTMORELAND | 230 | 25.7% | 70.6% |
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 KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Warren County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.3% | #256 of 2,335 | #1 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #455 of 2,342 ▲ 23 | #1 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #210 of 2,343 ▲ 91 | #1 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 263 | #2,178 of 2,585 | #6 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #875 of 2,338 | #6 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 11.7% | #2,270 of 2,388 | #6 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.0% | #2,057 of 2,534 | #8 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.1% | #1,407 of 1,757 | #5 of 7 |
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
263
+13 (+5%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 291
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 263 | 23.7 | 11.1:1 | 27% (71) |
| 2023-24 | 280 | 22.6 | 12.4:1 | 23% (64) |
| 2022-23 | 280 | 23 | 12.2:1 | 22% (61) |
| 2020-21 | 250 | 19 | 13.2:1 | 26% (65) |
| 2017-18 | 280 | 18.4 | 15.2:1 | 31% (88) |
| 2015-16 | 260 | 16 | 16.3:1 | 25% (66) |
| 2010-11 | 194 | 15 | 12.9:1 | 14% (28) |
| 2000-01 | 238 | 13 | 18.3:1 | 9% (22) |
| 1990-91 | 291 | 15 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL.
About KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL
KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL is an elementary school in GLENS FALLS, New York, according to federal school records. A federal count lists 263 students at the school, in pre-K through 4. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New York) has about 443 students.
GLENS FALLS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (5 schools, 1,972 students) runs KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL.
At KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL, White students make up 94% of the student body. Other students are 2% Hispanic. The county population is about 92% White, within a few points of the school. KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL has a diversity index of 12%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
At KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL, 23.7 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 11.1:1. For comparison, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. Roughly 27% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 41% average among public schools in Warren County.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Test results at KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL are 10.3 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (75.3% actual, 65.1% predicted).
Within Warren County, median household income is about $78,442, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Warren County number 19 and enroll about 7,825.
GLENS FALLS MIDDLE SCHOOL is located about 0.5 miles from KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL ranks 1st on proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Small, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The student count in 2024-25 was 263, 5% above the 250 of 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 11.1:1, from 13.2:1.
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Warren County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
65,517
Census ACS
Median income
$78,442
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
19
7,825 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in GLENS FALLS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- GLENS FALLS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 628 students
- GLENS FALLS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 610 students
- JACKSON HEIGHTS SCHOOLElementary · 260 students
- BIG CROSS STREET SCHOOLElementary · 211 students
Other schools in GLENS FALLS
- GLENS FALLS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 628 students
- GLENS FALLS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 610 students
- JACKSON HEIGHTS SCHOOLElementary · 260 students
- BIG CROSS STREET SCHOOLElementary · 211 students
- ABRAHAM WING SCHOOLElementary · 139 students
Nearby schools
- GLENS FALLS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 610
- GLENS FALLS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 628
- BIG CROSS STREET SCHOOL1.2 mi · 211
- JACKSON HEIGHTS SCHOOL1.3 mi · 260
- QUEENSBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 671
- ABRAHAM WING SCHOOL1.7 mi · 139
Frequently asked questions
About KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOLHow many students attend KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL?
KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL enrolls approximately 263 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL serve?
KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL serves grades PK-04.
How many teachers does KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL have?
KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.1:1.
What is the student diversity at KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL?
Student demographics at KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL are roughly 94% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL?
KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL is overseen by GLENS FALLS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Warren County.
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