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Enrollment
435
Elementary
DISTRICT 312 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WATERTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363012004622
NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
171 E HOARD ST, WATERTOWN, NY 13601 · (315) 785-3750 · Jefferson County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL435 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 9% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest 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
12.5:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
307 students
DISTRICT 68% · 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 | 86 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 86 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 18% |
| Ungraded | 5 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is 10% larger than its 4th grade class (78).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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 WATERTOWN 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
31.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
27.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.0% | 27.0% |
| 2023-24 | 21.0% | 35.0% |
% 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
28.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 49% 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 NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (28.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 435 | 70.6% | 28.8% |
| SOLVAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SOLVAY | 436 | 69.0% | 43.3% |
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JAMESTOWN | 377 | 67.9% | 47.9% |
| KNICKERBOCKER SCHOOL WATERTOWN | 340 | 67.9% | 33.3% |
| BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROME | 544 | 69.9% | 10.7% |
| FAIRGRIEVE SCHOOL FULTON | 390 | 68.2% | 16.5% |
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 NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.8% | #2,057 of 2,335 | #18 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #2,162 of 2,342 ▼ 291 | #19 of 20 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #2,105 of 2,343 ▲ 46 | #17 of 20 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 435 | #1,163 of 2,585 | #5 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #1,455 of 2,338 | #13 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.3% | #1,092 of 2,388 | #6 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.6% | #971 of 2,534 | #3 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.2% | #944 of 1,757 | #9 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
435
-47 (-10%) vs 2020
+9% since 1990-91, when it was 398
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 435 | 34.8 | 12.5:1 | 71% (307) |
| 2023-24 | 440 | 31.8 | 13.8:1 | 68% (299) |
| 2022-23 | 455 | 34.1 | 13.3:1 | 71% (322) |
| 2020-21 | 482 | 35 | 13.8:1 | 67% (321) |
| 2017-18 | 501 | 34 | 14.7:1 | 67% (336) |
| 2015-16 | 518 | 31 | 16.7:1 | 67% (349) |
| 2010-11 | 546 | 40 | 13.7:1 | 58% (318) |
| 2000-01 | 376 | 22 | 17.1:1 | 48% (180) |
| 1990-91 | 398 | 27 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school located in WATERTOWN, New York, in Jefferson County. It is open to students in kindergarten through 4 and enrolls 435 students.
WATERTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT is the district for NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. It has 8 schools and 3,940 students.
The share of White students at NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 64%, a majority. The remaining students are 18% multiracial, 14% Hispanic, and 4% Black. Census figures show Jefferson County is about 83% White. A diversity index of 53% means there is a 53% chance two randomly chosen students at NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
The school had 34.8 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 12.5:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New York is similar, at 12.8:1. The school reported 71% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Compared with the 49% average for public schools in Jefferson County, the school's rate is higher.
NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 9% of New York public elementary schools.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results for NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 49.0%. It actually posts 28.8%, which is 20.3 points lower and in the bottom 10% of New York schools.
For Jefferson County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $66,301, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 27%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. The county has 39 public schools and about 16,789 students.
A public school about 0.2 miles away, STARBUCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is the closest to NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 39.1% proficiency; NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 28.8%.
The school's locale code, City: Small, means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 10%. The ratio of students to teachers went from 13.8:1 to 12.5:1 over the same years.
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Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
115,040
Census ACS
Median income
$66,301
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
39
16,789 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WATERTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WATERTOWN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,181 students
- HAROLD T WILEY SCHOOLMiddle · 614 students
- CASE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 586 students
- KNICKERBOCKER SCHOOLElementary · 340 students
- SHERMAN SCHOOLElementary · 323 students
- OHIO STREET SCHOOLElementary · 308 students
Other schools in WATERTOWN
- WATERTOWN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,181 students
- HAROLD T WILEY SCHOOLMiddle · 614 students
- CASE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 586 students
- KNICKERBOCKER SCHOOLElementary · 340 students
- SHERMAN SCHOOLElementary · 323 students
- OHIO STREET SCHOOLElementary · 308 students
Other North Elementary schools
50 other US public schools in 24 states are named North Elementary. NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 21st largest of the 51.
- NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBRENTWOOD, NY · 881 students
- North Elementary SchoolWHITE SETTLEMENT, TX · 800 students
- North Elementary SchoolLEANDER, TX · 737 students
- North ElementaryTracy, CA · 722 students
- North ElementaryPrince George, VA · 720 students
Nearby schools
- STARBUCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 153
- OHIO STREET SCHOOL1.4 mi · 308
- KNICKERBOCKER SCHOOL1.7 mi · 340
- SHERMAN SCHOOL1.8 mi · 323
- CASE MIDDLE SCHOOL2.0 mi · 586
- WATERTOWN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.1 mi · 1,181
Frequently asked questions
About NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 435 students in grades KG-04.
Is NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
How many teachers does NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.5:1.
How diverse is NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 64% White, 14% Hispanic, 4% Black, 0% Asian, 18% Two or more.
Who oversees NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by WATERTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Jefferson County.
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