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Best kept secret at KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
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Enrollment
397
Elementary
DISTRICT 362 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OSWEGO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362205003126
KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
275 W 5TH ST, OSWEGO, NY 13126 · (315) 341-2500 · Oswego County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY32-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL397 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 24% 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.
- DBeats 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
14.1:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
128 students
DISTRICT 44% · 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 | 47 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 6 | 60 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 22% smaller than its 6th grade class (60).
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 29% · 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 OSWEGO 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
50.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +17.0pp since 2023
Math
47.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.0% | 47.0% |
| 2023-24 | 33.0% | 47.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
42.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 63% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (42.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 397 | 32.2% | 42.7% |
| RIDGE MILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROME | 388 | 33.2% | 48.6% |
| MILTON TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BALLSTON SPA | 370 | 33.5% | 70.0% |
| KAEGEBEIN SCHOOL GRAND ISLAND | 420 | 30.2% | 60.1% |
| J D GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VERONA | 414 | 34.3% | 46.2% |
| RIDGE ROAD SCHOOL HORSEHEADS | 369 | 32.0% | 55.5% |
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 KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Oswego County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.7% | #1,491 of 2,335 | #2 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #1,575 of 2,342 ▼ 143 | #5 of 20 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,346 of 2,343 ▲ 283 | #2 of 20 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 397 | #1,379 of 2,585 | #10 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #1,895 of 2,338 | #17 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 28.7% | #1,911 of 2,388 | #6 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.2% | #1,919 of 2,534 | #20 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.5% | #1,688 of 1,757 | #16 of 16 |
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
397
-16 (-4%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 548
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 397 | 28.1 | 14.1:1 | 32% (128) |
| 2023-24 | 410 | 28.2 | 14.5:1 | 39% (160) |
| 2022-23 | 428 | 27.4 | 15.6:1 | 46% (196) |
| 2020-21 | 413 | 27 | 15.3:1 | 38% (155) |
| 2017-18 | 403 | 30 | 13.4:1 | 35% (142) |
| 2015-16 | 429 | 28 | 15.3:1 | 49% (210) |
| 2010-11 | 402 | 28 | 14.4:1 | 25% (102) |
| 2000-01 | 505 | 38 | 13.3:1 | 28% (142) |
| 1990-91 | 548 | 34 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, located in OSWEGO, New York, is a medium-sized elementary school. It enrolled 397 students in pre-K through 6 for the 2024-25 school year.
OSWEGO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT is made up of 7 schools with 3,460 students in all.
About 84% of the student body at KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White. Smaller groups are 8% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. County-wide, 92% of Oswego County residents are White. KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's diversity index is 29%, against a US figure of 70%.
Its 28.1 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 14.1:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. The school's lunch program data list 32% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is lower than the 49% average for public schools in Oswego County.
KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 24% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 42.7% against a 63.1% prediction, a bottom-10% result in New York.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Oswego County show that the median household income is $69,183, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Besides KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Oswego County has 36 other public schools.
The shortest distance from KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.7 miles, to OSWEGO HIGH SCHOOL. Counting only straight-line distance, 6 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
Locale data from NCES put KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in a town some distance from an urbanized area (Town: Distant).
Enrollment has fallen by 16 students since 2020-21, to 397. Students per teacher fell from 15.3 in 2020-21 to 14.1 in 2024-25.
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Oswego County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
117,953
Census ACS
Median income
$69,183
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
17,529 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in OSWEGO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- OSWEGO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,079 students
- OSWEGO MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 572 students
- MINETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 409 students
- CHARLES E RILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 390 students
- FITZHUGH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 319 students
- LEIGHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 294 students
Other schools in OSWEGO
- OSWEGO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,079 students
- OSWEGO MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 572 students
- CHARLES E RILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 390 students
- FITZHUGH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 319 students
- LEIGHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 294 students
Nearby schools
- OSWEGO HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,079
- LEIGHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 294
- CHARLES E RILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 390
- OSWEGO MIDDLE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 572
- FITZHUGH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 319
- MINETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.1 mi · 409
Frequently asked questions
About KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 397 students in grades PK-06.
Is KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 84% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
KINGSFORD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by OSWEGO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.