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Enrollment
598
Elementary
DISTRICT 658 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MECHANICVILLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361890001712
MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
25 KNISKERN AVE, MECHANICVILLE, NY 12118 · (518) 664-7336 · Saratoga County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL598 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 28% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest 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
14.6:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
313 students
DISTRICT 49% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 32 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 92 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 102 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 95 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 95 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 98 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (92) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (98).
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 21% · 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
MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→MECHANICVILLE JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within MECHANICVILLE 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
43.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.0pp 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 43 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 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.0% | 43.0% |
| 2023-24 | 40.0% | 44.0% |
% 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
41.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% 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 MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (41.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 598 | 52.3% | 41.3% |
| MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PHOENIX | 610 | 53.8% | 37.5% |
| ALTMAR-PARISH-WILLIAMSTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARISH | 580 | 55.9% | 26.5% |
| HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HERKIMER | 533 | 50.5% | 31.4% |
| A F PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WINDSOR CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL WINDSOR | 542 | 48.2% | 63.9% |
| SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHERBURNE | 589 | 48.4% | 39.1% |
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 MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Saratoga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.3% | #1,558 of 2,335 | #28 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #1,736 of 2,342 ▼ 199 | #28 of 30 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #1,560 of 2,343 ▼ 261 | #27 of 30 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 598 | #472 of 2,585 | #2 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #1,965 of 2,338 | #28 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.9% | #2,127 of 2,388 | #21 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.3% | #1,335 of 2,534 | #1 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.9% | #1,159 of 1,757 | #11 of 21 |
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
598
+3 (+1%) vs 2020
-22% since 1990-91, when it was 768
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 598 | 41.1 | 14.6:1 | 52% (313) |
| 2023-24 | 600 | 39 | 15.4:1 | 51% (305) |
| 2022-23 | 600 | 36.8 | 16.3:1 | 52% (309) |
| 2020-21 | 595 | 39 | 15.3:1 | 46% (272) |
| 2017-18 | 664 | 51 | 13.0:1 | 38% (251) |
| 2015-16 | 662 | 47 | 14.1:1 | 40% (262) |
| 2010-11 | 640 | 49 | 13.1:1 | 35% (225) |
| 2000-01 | 701 | 54 | 13.0:1 | 10% (72) |
| 1990-91 | 768 | 46 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school that serves part of MECHANICVILLE, New York. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 598 students. That puts enrollment 35% above the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York.
MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one school in MECHANICVILLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a system of 2 schools with 1,315 students.
White students account for 90% of the school's enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 6% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. Among Saratoga County residents, the White share is about 88%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 19%.
MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 41.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 14.6:1. Elementary schools in New York have an average ratio of 12.8:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 52%. The rate at public schools in Saratoga County averages 30%, lower than here.
Among New York public elementary schools, MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 28%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
After adjusting for student poverty, MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 41.3%; the prediction is 55.7%.
In Saratoga County, median household income comes to about $100,787, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 45% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county's public schools total 50, with about 30,097 students.
MECHANICVILLE JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits about 0.5 miles from MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Inside a five-mile radius, there are 3 other public schools. MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in 9th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Town: Fringe.
In 2020-21, MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolled 595; in 2024-25, 598.
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Saratoga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
238,284
Census ACS
Median income
$100,787
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
50
30,097 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MECHANICVILLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MECHANICVILLE JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 717 students
Other schools in MECHANICVILLE
- MECHANICVILLE JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 717 students
Nearby schools
- MECHANICVILLE JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 717
- STILLWATER MIDDLE SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL4.3 mi · 490
- STILLWATER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.4 mi · 505
- SHATEKON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.4 mi · 560
- ARONGEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.4 mi · 589
- CHANGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.6 mi · 510
Frequently asked questions
About MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 598 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.6:1 students per teacher at MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 90% White, 6% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by MECHANICVILLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Saratoga County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.