NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the modestly sized primary schools in NORWOOD, New York, operated by NORWOOD-NORFOLK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 341 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 23% leaner than that benchmark.
NORWOOD-NORFOLK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 907 students; NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.
Demographically, NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that nearly all students (100%) are White. The wider county runs roughly 92% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.9%, the actual is 40.2%, a residual of -18.7 points.
In the surrounding community, census data for St. Lawrence County shows the typical household earns roughly $62,850 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Lawrence County runs 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,653 students), of which NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: NORWOOD-NORFOLK SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 61.8%.
The school occupies a rural site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has decreased 21%, going from 433 students in 2018 to 341 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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