MORRISONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 60% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MORRISONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MORRISONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, an intimate elementary-level community in MORRISONVILLE, New York, overseen by SARANAC CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, serves 358 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.
Within SARANAC CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 4 schools and 1,546 students, MORRISONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, MORRISONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that nearly all students (93%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 4% multiracial.
Looking at school resources, On paper, MORRISONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting MORRISONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Clinton County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, MORRISONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 60.1%; actual is 25.8%, a gap of -34.3 points.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Clinton County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,224, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. MORRISONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 29 public schools in Clinton County (combined enrollment of about 10,729 students).
CLINTON-ESSEX-WARREN-WASHINGTON BOCES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.6 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MORRISONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 48.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a rural area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 11%: 323 students in 2018 compared to 358 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 98% to 93%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.
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