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Enrollment
432
Elementary
DISTRICT 340 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POUGHKEEPSIE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362376003306
S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
101 MANSION ST, POUGHKEEPSIE, NY 12601 · (845) 451-4690 · Dutchess County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL432 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of New York public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
10.8:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
385 students
DISTRICT 85% · 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 | 8 | 2% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 23% |
| Grade 6 | 8 | 2% |
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
26.0%
NY avg 58.3%
Math
21.0%
NY avg 57.4%
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
19.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-23.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 42% 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.
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 S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (19.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 432 | 89.1% | 19.1% |
| PS 197 OCEAN SCHOOL (THE) FAR ROCKAWAY | 425 | 89.9% | 44.0% |
| GLOBAL COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK | 477 | 88.5% | 50.8% |
| PAVE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 413 | 90.1% | 59.7% |
| PS 78 STATEN ISLAND | 454 | 94.5% | 27.1% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - NORWOOD BRONX | 381 | 87.7% | 88.5% |
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 S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Dutchess County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.1% | #2,251 of 2,335 | #36 of 36 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.0% | #2,241 of 2,342 | #36 of 36 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.0% | #2,199 of 2,343 | #35 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 432 | #1,189 of 2,585 | #11 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #750 of 2,338 | #15 of 42 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.7% | #684 of 2,388 | #17 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.1% | #453 of 2,534 | #1 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.8% | #410 of 1,757 | #5 of 24 |
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
432
-109 (-20%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 468
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 12.0:1
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 | 432 | 39.9 | 10.8:1 | 89% (385) |
| 2023-24 | 434 | 43.9 | 9.9:1 | 82% (355) |
| 2022-23 | 495 | 44.3 | 11.2:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 541 | 45 | 12.0:1 | 76% (413) |
| 2017-18 | 582 | 38 | 15.3:1 | 72% (420) |
| 2015-16 | 553 | 32 | 17.3:1 | 85% (472) |
| 2010-11 | 582 | 40 | 14.6:1 | 84% (491) |
| 2000-01 | 505 | 28 | 18.0:1 | 90% (455) |
| 1990-91 | 468 | 37 | 12.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school in New York, with an address in POUGHKEEPSIE. Its enrollment is 432 students, spread over kindergarten through 6.
District-wide, POUGHKEEPSIE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT has 7 schools and 3,724 students.
Hispanic students make up 47% of enrollment at S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the largest share of any group. Other reported shares: 41% Black, 6% multiracial, and 4% White. That compares with about 15% Hispanic among all Dutchess County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 61%.
There are 39.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, giving a ratio of 10.8:1. Elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1, 2.0 more students per teacher than here. A total of 385 students, or 89%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Dutchess County average 40%.
S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 3% of New York public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results, 19.1%, is 23.2 points below the 42.2% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the bottom 10% of New York schools.
Looking at the county, Dutchess County, median household income comes to about $99,478, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county's public schools total 76, with about 36,885 students.
Of the public schools around it, S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest to CHARLES B WARRING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.5 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 8th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Locale data from NCES put S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL inside a principal city with a population under 100,000 (City: Small).
The school shrank from 541 students in 2020-21 to 432 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 12.0:1; by 2024-25 it was 10.8:1.
The allk12 page for S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Dutchess County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
298,220
Census ACS
Median income
$99,478
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
76
36,885 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in POUGHKEEPSIE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- POUGHKEEPSIE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,151 students
- POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 871 students
- G W KRIEGER SCHOOLElementary · 419 students
- SMITH EARLY LEARNING CENTERElementary · 328 students
- CHARLES B WARRING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 286 students
- GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOLElementary · 237 students
Other schools in POUGHKEEPSIE
- POUGHKEEPSIE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,151 students
- POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 871 students
- SPACKENKILL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 537 students
- ARTHUR S MAY SCHOOLElementary · 496 students
- OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 455 students
- TITUSVILLE INTERMEDIATEElementary · 425 students
Nearby schools
- CHARLES B WARRING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 286
- GOV GEORGE CLINTON SCHOOL0.6 mi · 237
- LITTLE WATER PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL0.6 mi · 202
- SMITH EARLY LEARNING CENTER0.9 mi · 328
- POUGHKEEPSIE HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,151
- POUGHKEEPSIE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 871
Frequently asked questions
About S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 432 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 10.8:1 (40 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 4% White, 47% Hispanic, 41% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
S F B MORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by POUGHKEEPSIE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.