Enrollment
399
Elementary
DISTRICT 323 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BINGHAMTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360487000230
MACARTHUR SCHOOL
1123 VESTAL AVE, BINGHAMTON, NY 13901 · (607) 763-8485 · Broome County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL399 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 7% 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.
- 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
10.1:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
250 students
DISTRICT 73% · 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 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (62).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · 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
38.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +16.0pp since 2023
Math
40.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +16.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 16 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.0% | 40.0% |
| 2023-24 | 22.0% | 24.0% |
% 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
28.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-23.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 52% 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 MACARTHUR SCHOOL
MACARTHUR SCHOOL's state test result (28.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MACARTHUR SCHOOL this school | 399 | 62.7% | 28.1% |
| RENSSELAER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TROY | 419 | 65.9% | 32.5% |
| BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 378 | 65.9% | 32.6% |
| NEIL ARMSTRONG SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 400 | 60.3% | 37.0% |
| SEVENTY NINTH STREET SCHOOL NIAGARA FALLS | 415 | 63.6% | 36.5% |
| HUGH R JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UTICA | 371 | 60.4% | 39.8% |
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 MACARTHUR SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Broome County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.1% | #2,080 of 2,335 | #24 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,857 of 2,342 ▲ 289 | #17 of 26 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #1,886 of 2,343 ▲ 213 | #19 of 26 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 399 | #1,365 of 2,585 | #13 of 28 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #481 of 2,338 | #5 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.1% | #455 of 2,388 | #10 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.7% | #1,106 of 2,534 | #9 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.9% | #664 of 1,757 | #2 of 19 |
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
399
-26 (-6%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 581
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
was 9.7:1
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 | 399 | 39.4 | 10.1:1 | 63% (250) |
| 2023-24 | 394 | 38.7 | 10.2:1 | 60% (235) |
| 2022-23 | 398 | 37.4 | 10.7:1 | 62% (247) |
| 2020-21 | 425 | 44 | 9.7:1 | 66% (281) |
| 2017-18 | 492 | 40 | 12.3:1 | 70% (342) |
| 2015-16 | 450 | 32 | 14.1:1 | 55% (248) |
| 2010-11 | 539 | 46 | 11.7:1 | 61% (331) |
| 2000-01 | 558 | 45 | 12.4:1 | 52% (289) |
| 1990-91 | 581 | 36 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MACARTHUR SCHOOL.
About MACARTHUR SCHOOL
MACARTHUR SCHOOL is an elementary school with a street address in BINGHAMTON, New York. It reported 399 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
MACARTHUR SCHOOL is part of a district of 10 schools: BINGHAMTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 4,531 students.
More than half of the students at MACARTHUR SCHOOL are White (52%). The next largest groups are 21% Black, 13% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, and 2% Asian. In Broome County overall, about 80% of residents are White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 65%.
MACARTHUR SCHOOL has 39.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 10.1:1. The school's 10.1:1 compares with an average of 12.8:1 for elementary schools in New York. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 63%. That rate is above the 52% average among public schools in Broome County.
On the allk12 Grade, MACARTHUR SCHOOL lands at D, ahead of 7% of New York public elementary schools.
MACARTHUR SCHOOL trails its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 23.8 points (28.1% versus 52.0%), a bottom-10% result in New York on BeatsExpectations.
Broome County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $62,616 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 12%. MACARTHUR SCHOOL shares Broome County with 51 other public schools.
MACARTHUR SCHOOL is about 0.8 miles from BINGHAMTON HIGH SCHOOL, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts MACARTHUR SCHOOL at 7th of 9.
Locale: City: Small. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment figures show a decrease of 26 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at MACARTHUR SCHOOL. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Broome County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
197,378
Census ACS
Median income
$62,616
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
52
24,594 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BINGHAMTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- BINGHAMTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,262 students
- WEST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 542 students
- EAST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 465 students
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 403 students
- WOODROW WILSON SCHOOLElementary · 355 students
- THEODORE ROOSEVELT SCHOOLElementary · 352 students
Other schools in BINGHAMTON
- BINGHAMTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,262 students
- BROOME-DELAWARE-TIOGA BOCESCombined · 1,055 students
- CHENANGO FORKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 605 students
- WEST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 542 students
- CHENANGO VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 507 students
- EAST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 465 students
Nearby schools
- BINGHAMTON HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,262
- HORACE MANN SCHOOL1.0 mi · 205
- WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 542
- THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL1.6 mi · 267
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 403
- VESTAL HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 388
Frequently asked questions
About MACARTHUR SCHOOLHow many students attend MACARTHUR SCHOOL?
MACARTHUR SCHOOL enrolls approximately 399 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does MACARTHUR SCHOOL serve?
MACARTHUR SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MACARTHUR SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MACARTHUR SCHOOL is approximately 10.1:1 (39 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at MACARTHUR SCHOOL?
Student demographics at MACARTHUR SCHOOL are roughly 52% White, 13% Hispanic, 21% Black, 2% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is MACARTHUR SCHOOL in?
MACARTHUR SCHOOL is part of BINGHAMTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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