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Enrollment
467
Elementary
DISTRICT 493 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BALDWINSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360387000144
L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
7864 HICKS RD, BALDWINSVILLE, NY 13027 · (315) 638-6127 · Onondaga County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL467 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 62% 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.
- B-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
15.9:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
80 students
DISTRICT 26% · 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 | 46 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 7% smaller than its 5th grade class (72).
Student demographics
22%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 26% · 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
L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→DONALD S RAY SCHOOL→THEODORE R DURGEE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL→CHARLES W BAKER HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within BALDWINSVILLE 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
69.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
62.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.0% | 62.0% |
| 2023-24 | 68.0% | 66.0% |
% 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
62.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (62.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 467 | 17.1% | 62.8% |
| FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BALLSTON LAKE | 468 | 19.0% | 75.0% |
| ERRICK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH TONAWANDA | 501 | 16.6% | 67.2% |
| CHARLTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BALLSTON LAKE | 498 | 15.7% | 70.1% |
| HILLVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LANCASTER | 451 | 17.1% | 70.3% |
| DUDLEY SCHOOL FAIRPORT | 482 | 17.8% | N/A |
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 L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Onondaga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.8% | #645 of 2,335 | #9 of 61 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #1,007 of 2,342 ▼ 309 | #16 of 61 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #562 of 2,343 ▼ 263 | #7 of 61 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 467 | #979 of 2,585 | #22 of 70 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #2,155 of 2,338 | #57 of 68 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.4% | #2,051 of 2,388 | #59 of 69 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 17.1% | #2,298 of 2,534 | #67 of 70 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.2% | #1,751 of 1,757 | #50 of 50 |
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
467
+7 (+2%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 582
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
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 | 467 | 29.4 | 15.9:1 | 17% (80) |
| 2023-24 | 482 | 30.4 | 15.9:1 | 19% (90) |
| 2022-23 | 470 | 29.3 | 16.0:1 | 20% (93) |
| 2020-21 | 460 | 30 | 15.3:1 | 13% (58) |
| 2017-18 | 468 | 31 | 15.1:1 | 13% (59) |
| 2015-16 | 455 | 32 | 14.2:1 | 14% (64) |
| 2010-11 | 513 | 32 | 16.0:1 | 11% (58) |
| 2000-01 | 541 | 31 | 17.4:1 | 7% (40) |
| 1990-91 | 582 | 38 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school serving families in BALDWINSVILLE, New York. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 467 students.
The 8 schools in BALDWINSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT enroll 5,400 students altogether, L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
Roughly 88% of students at L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are White. Smaller groups are 6% multiracial and 4% Hispanic. County-wide, 75% of Onondaga County residents are White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 22%.
Teacher count: 29.4 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 15.9:1. The gap from the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is 3.0 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 17%. The gap from the 49% average for public schools in Onondaga County is 32 points.
L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 62% of New York public elementary schools.
L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 62.8%, compared with a predicted 68.7%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census data for Onondaga County show median household income comes to about $76,945, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. The county has 123 public schools and about 67,044 students.
Among nearby public schools, CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest at about 2.1 miles. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Of the 6 nearby schools with scores, including this one, L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 1st on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as Rural: Fringe.
Federal data show 460 students in 2020-21 and 467 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%.
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Onondaga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
471,129
Census ACS
Median income
$76,945
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
123
67,044 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BALDWINSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CHARLES W BAKER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,240 students
- THEODORE R DURGEE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 848 students
- DONALD S RAY SCHOOLMiddle · 846 students
- MAE E REYNOLDS SCHOOLElementary · 513 students
- HARRY E ELDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 504 students
- CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 494 students
Other schools in BALDWINSVILLE
- CHARLES W BAKER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,240 students
- THEODORE R DURGEE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 848 students
- DONALD S RAY SCHOOLMiddle · 846 students
- MAE E REYNOLDS SCHOOLElementary · 513 students
- HARRY E ELDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 504 students
- CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 494 students
Nearby schools
- CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 494
- MAE E REYNOLDS SCHOOL2.3 mi · 513
- ELMCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 362
- DONALD S RAY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 846
- LONG BRANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.7 mi · 378
- WILLOW FIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.8 mi · 342
Frequently asked questions
About L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 467 students in grades PK-05.
Is L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.9:1.
What is the student diversity at L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 88% White, 4% Hispanic, 2% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of BALDWINSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.