Enrollment
264
Elementary
DISTRICT 249 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MCGRAW CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361884001710
MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
50 W ACADEMY ST, MCGRAW, NY 13101 · (607) 836-3650 · Cortland County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL264 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 38% of New York public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
11.0:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
133 students
DISTRICT 49% · 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 | 47 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 23 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 38 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 31 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 20 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 34 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 32 | 12% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 2% |
This year's kindergarten class (23) is 28% smaller than its 6th grade class (32).
Student demographics
10%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 12% · 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
MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→MCGRAW SECONDARY SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within MCGRAW 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
43.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -2.0pp since 2023
Math
48.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.0% | 48.0% |
| 2023-24 | 45.0% | 49.0% |
% 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
45.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (45.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 264 | 50.4% | 45.5% |
| BERLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BERLIN | 256 | 51.6% | 46.7% |
| ROUSES POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROUSES POINT | 259 | 49.0% | 58.6% |
| CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PAINTED POST | 262 | 50.0% | 53.5% |
| GRANVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GRANVILLE | 266 | 52.3% | 29.5% |
| MADILL SCHOOL OGDENSBURG | 277 | 51.6% | 47.9% |
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 MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Cortland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.5% | #1,367 of 2,335 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #1,537 of 2,342 ▼ 179 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #1,666 of 2,343 ▼ 567 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 264 | #2,174 of 2,585 | #6 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #843 of 2,338 | #2 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 10.2% | #2,293 of 2,388 | #5 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.4% | #1,397 of 2,534 | #4 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.3% | #1,581 of 1,757 | N/A |
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
264
+48 (+22%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 389
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 264 | 24 | 11.0:1 | 50% (133) |
| 2023-24 | 226 | 21.9 | 10.3:1 | 56% (126) |
| 2022-23 | 232 | 21.9 | 10.6:1 | 57% (133) |
| 2020-21 | 216 | 21 | 10.3:1 | 49% (106) |
| 2017-18 | 273 | 23.8 | 11.5:1 | 59% (160) |
| 2015-16 | 227 | 20 | 11.3:1 | 67% (151) |
| 2010-11 | 288 | 26 | 11.1:1 | 51% (147) |
| 2000-01 | 335 | 30 | 11.2:1 | 38% (127) |
| 1990-91 | 389 | 26 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in MCGRAW, New York, according to federal school records. Federal data show 264 students enrolled in pre-K through 6 in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 40% below that mark.
MCGRAW CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT has 498 students spread across 2 schools.
The share of White students at MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 95%. Other groups include 3% multiracial. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 10%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 11.0:1, based on 24 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York, this school's ratio is lower. Lunch program data show 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The average for public schools in Cortland County is similar, at 48%.
On the allk12 Grade, MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at C+, ahead of 38% of New York public elementary schools.
A school with MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 56.5%. MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 45.5%, 11.0 points below that line.
In the wider Cortland County area, median household income comes to about $70,418, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Cortland County's 17 public schools enroll about 5,381 students and include MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
The closest school to MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is MCGRAW SECONDARY SCHOOL, located about 0.3 miles away. In all, 6 other public schools sit within five miles of MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on average proficiency.
MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Rural: Distant.
Enrollment was 264 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 216.
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Cortland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
46,246
Census ACS
Median income
$70,418
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
17
5,381 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MCGRAW CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MCGRAW SECONDARY SCHOOLHigh · 234 students
Other Mcgraw Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Mcgraw Elementary. MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- McGraw Elementary SchoolFORT COLLINS, CO · 349 students
Nearby schools
- MCGRAW SECONDARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 234
- CORTLAND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL3.7 mi · 274
- CORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL3.7 mi · 582
- RANDALL MIDDLE SCHOOL3.7 mi · 272
- FRANKLYN S BARRY PRIMARY SCHOOL4.6 mi · 417
- FE SMITH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL4.8 mi · 291
Frequently asked questions
About MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 264 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.0:1 students per teacher at MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 95% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MCGRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by MCGRAW CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Cortland County.
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