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Enrollment
585
Elementary
DISTRICT 482 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362937003954
KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
929 YORK ST, UTICA, NY 13502 · (315) 368-6760 · Oneida County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL585 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 12% 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.
- 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.
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
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
512 students
DISTRICT 77% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 83 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 89 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (83) is 7% smaller than its 6th grade class (89).
Student demographics
76%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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
33.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
35.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +16.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 33 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 16 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.0% | 35.0% |
| 2023-24 | 19.0% | 19.0% |
% 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
27.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (27.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 585 | 87.5% | 27.5% |
| SCHOOL 50-HELEN BARRETT MONTGOMERY ROCHESTER | 590 | 81.2% | 15.5% |
| PS 223 LYNDON B JOHNSON JAMAICA | 571 | 91.9% | 28.8% |
| PS 315 BROOKLYN | 555 | 89.2% | 41.8% |
| PS 194 RAOUL WALLENBERG BROOKLYN | 482 | 94.0% | 39.5% |
| WEST BUFFALO CHARTER SCHOOL BUFFALO | 498 | 91.0% | 47.3% |
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 KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Oneida County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.5% | #2,098 of 2,335 | #34 of 37 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #1,999 of 2,342 ▲ 234 | #29 of 37 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #2,055 of 2,343 ▲ 138 | #32 of 37 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 585 | #521 of 2,585 | #5 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #1,298 of 2,338 | #22 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.5% | #35 of 2,388 | #5 of 39 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.5% | #519 of 2,534 | #2 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.8% | #978 of 1,757 | #14 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
585
+8 (+1%) vs 2020
-12% since 1990-91, when it was 667
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 585 | 48.6 | 12.1:1 | 88% (512) |
| 2023-24 | 583 | 46.5 | 12.5:1 | 81% (475) |
| 2022-23 | 566 | 42.7 | 13.3:1 | 81% (458) |
| 2020-21 | 577 | 44 | 13.1:1 | 88% (506) |
| 2017-18 | 671 | 46 | 14.6:1 | 88% (593) |
| 2015-16 | 642 | 35 | 18.3:1 | 88% (565) |
| 2010-11 | 615 | 53 | 11.6:1 | 93% (573) |
| 2000-01 | 706 | 50 | 14.1:1 | 91% (639) |
| 1990-91 | 667 | 45 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the public schools in UTICA, New York. It is a medium-sized elementary school. A total of 585 students attend the school, which covers kindergarten through 6. The average for elementary schools in New York is about 443 students, so this school is 32% larger than average.
KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of a district of 13 schools: UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 9,075 students.
Hispanic students form the largest group at KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 34% of enrollment. Next come 29% Black, 16% White, 13% multiracial, and 8% Asian. That compares with about 7% Hispanic among all Oneida County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 76%.
Dividing enrollment by its 48.6 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 12.1:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, higher than at this school. KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 88% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. It compares with 47% for public schools in Oneida County.
KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded D by allk12, scoring above 12% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 15.3 points below its prediction. Actual: 27.5%. Predicted: 42.8%.
In the county around the school, Oneida County, median household income is about $70,154, about 28% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. A total of 72 public schools operate in Oneida County, serving about 32,265 students.
Nearby, MOHAWK VALLEY PSYCHIATRIC CENTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH is about 0.5 miles away. KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in 8th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded as City: Small in federal locale data.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 577 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 585. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 13.1:1 to 12.1:1.
Parents and students can post about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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
- MOHAWK VALLEY PSYCHIATRIC CENTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH0.5 mi · 23
- SENATOR JAMES H DONOVAN MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 749
- WATSON WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 590
- MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 303
- JOHN F HUGHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 347
- ROSCOE CONKLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 503
Frequently asked questions
About KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 585 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 12.1:1 (49 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 16% White, 34% Hispanic, 29% Black, 8% Asian, 13% Two or more.
What district is KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
KERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.