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Enrollment
982
Elementary
DISTRICT 625 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEWBURGH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362070002907
MEADOW HILL SCHOOL
124 MEADOW HILL RD, NEWBURGH, NY 12550 · (845) 568-6600 · Orange County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL982 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% of New York public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
11.2:1
88 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
502 students
DISTRICT 53% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 100 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 111 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 109 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 103 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 113 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 110 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 111 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 113 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 107 | 11% |
| Ungraded | 5 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (100) is 7% smaller than its 8th grade class (107).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
MEADOW HILL SCHOOL→NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY
Based on grade levels within NEWBURGH CITY 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
45.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
50.5%
NY avg 57.4% . -49.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 49 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.0% | 50.5% |
| 2023-24 | 40.0% | 100.0% |
% 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
48.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% 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 MEADOW HILL SCHOOL
MEADOW HILL SCHOOL's state test result (48.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEADOW HILL SCHOOL this school | 982 | 51.1% | 48.4% |
| MORICHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MORICHES | 861 | 49.1% | 45.6% |
| THIELLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THIELLS | 706 | 52.0% | 40.5% |
| WEST HAVERSTRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST HAVERSTRAW | 715 | 54.0% | 26.3% |
| NATHANIEL WOODHULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHIRLEY | 812 | 46.4% | 36.9% |
| GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOL NEWBURGH | 788 | 58.9% | 26.9% |
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 MEADOW HILL SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.4% | #1,223 of 2,335 | #15 of 40 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.5% | #1,418 of 2,342 ▼ 1,387 | #23 of 40 ▼ 22 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #1,564 of 2,343 ▼ 262 | #26 of 40 ▼ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 982 | #50 of 2,585 | #3 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #921 of 2,338 | #12 of 43 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.3% | #1,133 of 2,388 | #30 of 43 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.1% | #1,375 of 2,534 | #13 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.1% | #1,410 of 1,757 | #23 of 31 |
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
982
-6 (-1%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 1,180
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 10.9:1
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 | 982 | 87.8 | 11.2:1 | 51% (502) |
| 2023-24 | 981 | 94 | 10.4:1 | 59% (575) |
| 2022-23 | 1,013 | 91.8 | 11.0:1 | 58% (588) |
| 2020-21 | 988 | 91 | 10.9:1 | 64% (629) |
| 2017-18 | 1,046 | 95.5 | 10.9:1 | 64% (672) |
| 2015-16 | 1,063 | 89 | 11.9:1 | 76% (805) |
| 2010-11 | 1,026 | 91 | 11.3:1 | 71% (727) |
| 2000-01 | 1,113 | 75 | 14.8:1 | 63% (704) |
| 1990-91 | 1,180 | 66 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MEADOW HILL SCHOOL.
About MEADOW HILL SCHOOL
MEADOW HILL SCHOOL is classified as an elementary school. It is located in NEWBURGH, New York. The school enrolls 982 students, from kindergarten through 8. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New York) has about 443 students.
MEADOW HILL SCHOOL falls under NEWBURGH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 12 schools enrolling 10,762 students.
Roughly 66% of students at MEADOW HILL SCHOOL are Hispanic. Other groups make up 14% Black, 12% White, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. County-wide, 24% of Orange County residents are Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 52% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
MEADOW HILL SCHOOL counts 87.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 11.2 students for each one. On average, elementary schools in New York have 12.8:1, compared with 11.2:1 here. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, MEADOW HILL SCHOOL receives a B-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 48.4%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 56.2%.
In the county around the school, Orange County, the median household income is $97,178, about 33% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Orange County is home to 82 public schools and about 57,122 public school students.
The school nearest to MEADOW HILL SCHOOL is GARDNERTOWN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, at a distance of about 1.3 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, MEADOW HILL SCHOOL ranks 3rd in a group of 9 nearby schools.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 988 to 982.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
406,616
Census ACS
Median income
$97,178
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
82
57,122 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEWBURGH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMYHigh · 3,550 students
- TEMPLE HILL SCHOOLElementary · 890 students
- HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 802 students
- GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOLElementary · 788 students
- SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 782 students
- GARDNERTOWN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 612 students
Other schools in NEWBURGH
- NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMYHigh · 3,550 students
- GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOLElementary · 788 students
- SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 782 students
- GARDNERTOWN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 612 students
- FOSTERTOWN SCHOOLElementary · 594 students
- HORIZON-ON-THE-HUDSON SCHOOLElementary · 447 students
Nearby schools
- GARDNERTOWN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 612
- EAST COLDENHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 339
- FOSTERTOWN SCHOOL2.8 mi · 594
- LITTLE BRITAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.1 mi · 442
- NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY3.1 mi · 3,550
- GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOL3.2 mi · 788
Frequently asked questions
About MEADOW HILL SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at MEADOW HILL SCHOOL?
MEADOW HILL SCHOOL enrolls approximately 982 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does MEADOW HILL SCHOOL serve?
MEADOW HILL SCHOOL serves grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MEADOW HILL SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MEADOW HILL SCHOOL is approximately 11.2:1 (88 FTE teachers).
How diverse is MEADOW HILL SCHOOL?
MEADOW HILL SCHOOL reports a student body of 12% White, 66% Hispanic, 14% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is MEADOW HILL SCHOOL in?
MEADOW HILL SCHOOL is part of NEWBURGH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.