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MAYFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)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 61 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 are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MAYFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MAYFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of reasonably sized scale in MAYFIELD, New York, overseen by MAYFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructing 430 students in grades pre-K through 6.
MAYFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 809 students. MAYFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, MAYFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 3% Hispanic.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Fulton County's rate of about 55%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MAYFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.0%.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Fulton County) shows that median household income runs about $66,533, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Fulton County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,173 students), of which MAYFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: MAYFIELD JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MAYFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 42.7%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 16%: 509 students in 2018 compared to 430 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.
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