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Enrollment
526
Elementary
DISTRICT 431 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POTSDAM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362367003300
LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
29 LEROY ST, POTSDAM, NY 13676 · (315) 265-2000 · St. Lawrence County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY33-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL526 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% of New York public elementary schools
- A-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
12.9:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
148 students
DISTRICT 31% · 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 | 96 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 96 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 98 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 17% smaller than its 4th grade class (98).
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 24% · 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
74.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
75.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.0% | 75.0% |
| 2023-24 | 63.0% | 68.0% |
% 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
70.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% 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 LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (70.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 526 | 28.1% | 70.0% |
| DEWITT ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEBSTER | 507 | 28.8% | 53.5% |
| CICERO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CICERO | 596 | 27.3% | 53.8% |
| COBBLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PENFIELD | 542 | 24.9% | 66.2% |
| CLOVERBANK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HAMBURG | 509 | 29.1% | 64.3% |
| ALLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST SENECA | 509 | 28.5% | 58.0% |
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 LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In St. Lawrence County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #406 of 2,335 | #1 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #537 of 2,342 ▲ 98 | #1 of 14 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #410 of 2,343 ▲ 39 | #1 of 14 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 526 | #710 of 2,585 | #1 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #1,591 of 2,338 | #8 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.9% | #1,964 of 2,388 | #3 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.1% | #2,017 of 2,534 | #14 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.0% | #1,656 of 1,757 | #12 of 12 |
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
526
-2 (0%) vs 2020
-38% since 1990-91, when it was 854
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 526 | 40.8 | 12.9:1 | 28% (148) |
| 2023-24 | 546 | 42.2 | 12.9:1 | 36% (195) |
| 2022-23 | 551 | 40.5 | 13.6:1 | 39% (214) |
| 2020-21 | 528 | 34 | 15.5:1 | 32% (169) |
| 2017-18 | 537 | 38 | 14.1:1 | 38% (203) |
| 2015-16 | 593 | 35 | 16.9:1 | 44% (262) |
| 2010-11 | 597 | 40 | 14.9:1 | 54% (323) |
| 2000-01 | 550 | 38 | 14.5:1 | 31% (170) |
| 1990-91 | 854 | 49 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
In POTSDAM, New York, part of St. Lawrence County, LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school. The school teaches pre-K through 4 and enrolls 526 students.
LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one school in a 3-school district, POTSDAM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which enrolls 1,292 students.
By race and ethnicity, LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 85% White. Other groups make up 6% Asian, 4% multiracial, and 3% Hispanic. A diversity index of 27% means there is a 27% chance two randomly chosen students at LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.9:1, with 40.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The ratio is within a point of the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 28% at LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. It compares with 45% for public schools in St. Lawrence County.
LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 79% of New York public elementary schools.
In New York, LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 70.0% actual against a predicted 64.7%.
In St. Lawrence County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $62,850, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and about 12% of people live in poverty. There are 40 public schools in the county, enrolling about 13,653, LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, A A KINGSTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, is less than a tenth of a mile. Other public schools within five miles: 2. LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 3rd of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the Town: Remote locale category, used for schools in a town far from an urbanized area.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 528 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 526. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 15.5:1; by 2024-25 it was 12.9:1.
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St. Lawrence County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
107,226
Census ACS
Median income
$62,850
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
40
13,653 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in POTSDAM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- A A KINGSTON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 393 students
- POTSDAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 373 students
Other schools in POTSDAM
- A A KINGSTON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 393 students
- POTSDAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 373 students
Nearby schools
- A A KINGSTON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 393
- POTSDAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 373
- NORWOOD-NORFOLK SCHOOL6.9 mi · 290
- NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL6.9 mi · 341
- NORWOOD-NORFOLK MIDDLE SCHOOL6.9 mi · 276
- COLTON-PIERREPONT CENTRAL SCHOOL8.3 mi · 359
Frequently asked questions
About LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 526 students in grades PK-04.
Is LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 12.9:1 (41 FTE teachers).
How diverse is LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 85% White, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black, 6% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by POTSDAM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in St. Lawrence County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.