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Enrollment
610
Elementary
DISTRICT 530 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PHOENIX CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362292003218
MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
11 ELM ST, PHOENIX, NY 13135 · (315) 695-1561 · Oswego County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL610 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% 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
12.9:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.8:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
328 students
DISTRICT 52% · 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 | 40 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 95 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 120 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 123 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 120 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 110 | 18% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (95) is 14% smaller than its 4th grade class (110).
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 11% · 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
Based on grade levels within PHOENIX 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
30.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
47.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.0% | 47.0% |
| 2023-24 | 24.0% | 48.0% |
% 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
37.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (37.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 610 | 53.8% | 37.5% |
| ALTMAR-PARISH-WILLIAMSTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARISH | 580 | 55.9% | 26.5% |
| MECHANICVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MECHANICVILLE | 598 | 52.3% | 41.3% |
| CUMBERLAND HEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLATTSBURGH | 515 | 53.2% | 38.0% |
| SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHERBURNE | 589 | 48.4% | 39.1% |
| GOUVERNEUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GOUVERNEUR | 511 | 54.6% | 28.2% |
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 MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Oswego County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.5% | #1,738 of 2,335 | #8 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #1,578 of 2,342 ▼ 177 | #6 of 20 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.0% | #2,128 of 2,343 ▼ 72 | #14 of 20 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 610 | #427 of 2,585 | #1 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #1,610 of 2,338 | #11 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 10.7% | #2,287 of 2,388 | #14 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.8% | #1,303 of 2,534 | #9 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.6% | #1,050 of 1,757 | #7 of 16 |
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
610
-52 (-8%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 860
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 13.5:1
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 | 610 | 47.1 | 12.9:1 | 54% (328) |
| 2023-24 | 631 | 49.6 | 12.7:1 | 56% (351) |
| 2022-23 | 667 | 48 | 13.9:1 | 58% (387) |
| 2020-21 | 662 | 49 | 13.5:1 | 50% (328) |
| 2017-18 | 690 | 48.6 | 14.2:1 | 54% (371) |
| 2015-16 | 696 | 49 | 14.2:1 | 54% (377) |
| 2010-11 | 816 | 64 | 12.8:1 | 42% (344) |
| 2000-01 | 1,096 | 81 | 13.5:1 | 44% (478) |
| 1990-91 | 860 | 49 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Federal records list MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as an elementary school in PHOENIX, New York. Enrollment stands at 610 students, covering pre-K through 4. That puts enrollment 38% above the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York.
MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belongs to PHOENIX CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district of 3 schools and 1,590 students.
MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 94% White by enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 3% multiracial. That is in line with Oswego County, where about 92% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 11%.
Its ratio of 12.9:1 is based on 47.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is close to this figure. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 54%.
Among New York public elementary schools, MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 19%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 55.2% for MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The school posts 37.5%, 17.7 points below the prediction.
In Oswego County, median household income comes to about $69,183, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 22% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county's public schools total 37, with about 17,529 students.
The closest school to MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is EMERSON J DILLON MIDDLE SCHOOL, located about 0.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is 3. Among its closest neighbors with test data, MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 8th of 8 on proficiency.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 610, from 662 in 2020-21.
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Oswego County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
117,953
Census ACS
Median income
$69,183
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
17,529 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PHOENIX CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- EMERSON J DILLON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 509 students
- JOHN C BIRDLEBOUGH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 471 students
Other schools in PHOENIX
- EMERSON J DILLON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 509 students
- JOHN C BIRDLEBOUGH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 471 students
Nearby schools
- EMERSON J DILLON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 509
- JOHN C BIRDLEBOUGH HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 471
- WILLOW FIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.4 mi · 342
- THEODORE R DURGEE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL5.0 mi · 848
- HARRY E ELDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.2 mi · 504
- CHARLES W BAKER HIGH SCHOOL5.3 mi · 1,240
Frequently asked questions
About MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 610 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-04.
How many students per teacher at MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.9:1 students per teacher at MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 94% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Two or more.
Is MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
MICHAEL A MAROUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by PHOENIX CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.