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Enrollment
446
Elementary
DISTRICT 361 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLARKSTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362034001872
NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
60 CRESTWOOD DR, NEW CITY, NY 10956 · (845) 624-3467 · Rockland County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL446 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 63% of New York public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
11.1:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
78 students
DISTRICT 23% · 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 | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 7 | 2% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (68).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
70.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
67.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 67.0% |
| 2023-24 | 59.0% | 66.0% |
% 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
63.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (63.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 446 | 17.5% | 63.2% |
| JOHN G DINKELMEYER SCHOOL NORTH BELLMORE | 440 | 18.0% | 67.6% |
| JOHN STREET SCHOOL FRANKLIN SQUARE | 483 | 19.7% | 68.9% |
| JOHN H WEST SCHOOL BETHPAGE | 473 | 18.0% | 55.3% |
| RUSHMORE AVENUE SCHOOL CARLE PLACE | 407 | 23.8% | 70.8% |
| WOODGLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW CITY | 398 | 24.9% | 52.9% |
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 NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Rockland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.2% | #631 of 2,335 | #9 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #817 of 2,342 ▼ 114 | #11 of 33 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #540 of 2,343 ▲ 9 | #6 of 33 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 446 | #1,097 of 2,585 | #15 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #908 of 2,338 | #18 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.6% | #333 of 2,388 | #12 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 17.5% | #2,289 of 2,534 | #31 of 36 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.6% | #222 of 606 | #8 of 17 |
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
446
+36 (+9%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 455
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 446 | 40 | 11.1:1 | 17% (78) |
| 2023-24 | 429 | 37.6 | 11.4:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 435 | 39.5 | 11.0:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 410 | 32 | 12.8:1 | 14% (59) |
| 2017-18 | 396 | 27 | 14.7:1 | 13% (52) |
| 2015-16 | 382 | 26 | 14.7:1 | 12% (45) |
| 2010-11 | 386 | 31 | 12.4:1 | 3% (12) |
| 2000-01 | 420 | 23 | 18.3:1 | 5% (21) |
| 1990-91 | 455 | 35 | 13.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school in New York, with an address in NEW CITY. It enrolls 446 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 5.
The district, CLARKSTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, operates 16 schools serving 7,821 students.
White students account for 45% of enrollment at NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, more than any other group. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 20% Asian, 4% multiracial, and 3% Black. By comparison, Rockland County residents are about 62% White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 68%.
NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 11.1:1. 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 17%. On average, public schools in Rockland County report 48%.
Among New York public elementary schools, NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 63%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
A school with NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 68.6%. NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 63.2%, 5.3 points below that line.
In the surrounding county, Rockland County, the median household earns about $109,959 a year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Rockland County has 66 public schools with about 41,335 students, including NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
LITTLE TOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits about 0.6 miles from NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in 5th of 8 nearby schools on average 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.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 446, compared with 410 in 2020-21. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (11.1:1) than in 2020-21 (12.8:1).
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Rockland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
341,883
Census ACS
Median income
$109,959
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
66
41,335 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CLARKSTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CLARKSTOWN SOUTH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,386 students
- CLARKSTOWN NORTH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,209 students
- FELIX FESTA DETERMINATION MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 679 students
- FELIX FESTA CHARACTER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 612 students
- FELIX FESTA ACHIEVEMENT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 609 students
- LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 441 students
Other schools in NEW CITY
- CLARKSTOWN NORTH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,209 students
- SUMMIT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 659 students
- WOODGLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 398 students
- LAUREL PLAINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 369 students
- LINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 366 students
- LITTLE TOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 264 students
Nearby schools
- LITTLE TOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 264
- ROCKLAND COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT0.6 mi · 7
- CLARKSTOWN NORTH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,209
- WOODGLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 398
- LAUREL PLAINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 369
- LINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 366
Frequently asked questions
About NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 446 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.1:1 students per teacher at NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 45% White, 29% Hispanic, 3% Black, 20% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NEW CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by CLARKSTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Rockland County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.