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Enrollment
308
Elementary
DISTRICT 505 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PORT JERVIS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362352003285
N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL
929 RT 209, CUDDEBACKVILLE, NY 12729 · (845) 858-3100 · Orange County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL308 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
8.7:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
152 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 | 36 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 44 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 37 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 45 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (52).
Student demographics
32%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
Based on grade levels within PORT JERVIS 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
52.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +24.0pp since 2023
Math
49.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +15.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 24 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.0% | 49.0% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 34.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
37.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 57% 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 N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL
N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL's state test result (37.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL this school | 308 | 49.4% | 37.8% |
| MORSE SCHOOL SAUGERTIES | 307 | 47.6% | 47.9% |
| CENTER STREET SCHOOL HORSEHEADS | 306 | 51.3% | 51.5% |
| F P DONNELLY SCHOOL CONKLIN | 306 | 50.3% | 42.2% |
| NORTH HORNELL SCHOOL HORNELL | 331 | 53.5% | N/A |
| NEWFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEWFIELD | 318 | 53.1% | 35.8% |
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 N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.8% | #1,724 of 2,335 | #32 of 40 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #1,499 of 2,342 ▲ 378 | #28 of 40 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #1,270 of 2,343 ▲ 587 | #18 of 40 ▲ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 308 | #1,943 of 2,585 | #41 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.7:1 | #135 of 2,338 | #1 of 43 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.2% | #1,830 of 2,388 | #43 of 43 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.4% | #1,426 of 2,534 | #14 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.5% | #460 of 1,757 | #3 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
308
-109 (-26%) vs 2020
-54% since 1990-91, when it was 673
Student : Teacher
8.7:1
was 9.9:1
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 | 308 | 35.4 | 8.7:1 | 49% (152) |
| 2023-24 | 457 | 44.5 | 10.3:1 | 51% (235) |
| 2022-23 | 464 | 50.6 | 9.2:1 | 54% (249) |
| 2020-21 | 417 | 42 | 9.9:1 | 50% (209) |
| 2017-18 | 408 | 40 | 10.2:1 | 56% (227) |
| 2015-16 | 442 | 40 | 11.1:1 | 57% (253) |
| 2010-11 | 538 | 43 | 12.5:1 | 48% (260) |
| 2000-01 | 745 | 43 | 17.3:1 | 30% (220) |
| 1990-91 | 673 | 38 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL.
About N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL
In CUDDEBACKVILLE, New York, part of Orange County, N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL is an elementary school. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 308 students. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 30% below that mark.
N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL is a school in PORT JERVIS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The district has 4 schools and 2,302 students.
The share of students at N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL who are White is 81%. Enrollment also includes 13% Hispanic and 5% Black. Among people living in Orange County, the White share is about 62%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 32, compared with 70 nationally.
N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL has 35.4 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.7:1. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is 12.8:1. The school has 49% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 19% of New York public elementary schools.
N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL scores 19.1 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 37.8% actual versus 56.8% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Orange County, the median household earns about $97,178 a year, roughly 33% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL shares Orange County with 81 other public schools.
Of the public schools around it, N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL is closest to OTISVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 3.4 miles away. Inside a ten-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 54.0%; N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL's is 37.8%, ranking 8th of 8.
NCES describes the area around N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL as Rural: Distant, meaning in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 26%. The ratio of students to teachers went from 9.9:1 to 8.7:1 over the same years.
This page is set up for the N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 PORT JERVIS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 743 students
- EAST MAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 702 students
- PORT JERVIS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 549 students
Nearby schools
- OTISVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.4 mi · 559
- PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL6.6 mi · 743
- PORT JERVIS MIDDLE SCHOOL6.6 mi · 549
- MINISINK VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL6.7 mi · 454
- MINISINK VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL6.7 mi · 509
- MINISINK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL6.8 mi · 806
Frequently asked questions
About N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOLHow large is N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL?
N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL enrolls approximately 308 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL serve?
N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL is approximately 8.7:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL?
Student demographics at N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL are roughly 81% White, 13% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian.
Who oversees N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL?
N A HAMILTON BICENTENNIAL SCHOOL is overseen by PORT JERVIS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Orange County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.