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MAYNARD P WILSON 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 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 47% 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 MAYNARD P WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MAYNARD P WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a medium-sized primary school in ADAMS CENTER, New York, operated by SOUTH JEFFERSON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 477 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
SOUTH JEFFERSON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,788 students; MAYNARD P WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, MAYNARD P WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that nearly all students (92%) are White; the rest is composed of 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, On paper, MAYNARD P WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting MAYNARD P WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Jefferson County's rate of about 49%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, MAYNARD P WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.6%; this one delivers 47.0%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) logs that median household earnings sit near $66,301, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Jefferson County runs 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,789 students), of which MAYNARD P WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: SOUTH JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL, around 2.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around MAYNARD P WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MAYNARD P WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.3%.
The campus sits in a countryside setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MAYNARD P WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 13%, going from 550 students in 2018 to 477 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.
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