Enrollment
341
Elementary
DISTRICT 302 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORWOOD-NORFOLK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362136003043
NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
7852 STATE HWY 56, NORWOOD, NY 13668 · (315) 353-6674 · St. Lawrence County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL341 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 23% 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
12.7:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
149 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 55 | 16% |
| Kindergarten | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (55).
Student demographics
1%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 5% · 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 NORWOOD-NORFOLK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
38.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
46.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
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.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.0% | 46.0% |
| 2023-24 | 30.0% | 46.0% |
% 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
40.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.7pp
below demographic expectation
What 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%.
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 NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (40.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 341 | 43.7% | 40.2% |
| KEESEVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL KEESEVILLE | 364 | 42.6% | 43.6% |
| MEXICO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MEXICO | 362 | 42.0% | 33.2% |
| LETCHWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GAINESVILLE | 311 | 45.0% | 51.6% |
| PALMYRA-MACEDON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL MACEDON | 339 | 43.4% | 39.2% |
| TIOGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TIOGA CENTER | 323 | 47.1% | 64.1% |
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 NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In St. Lawrence County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.2% | #1,607 of 2,335 | #11 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #1,618 of 2,342 ▼ 155 | #10 of 14 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #1,895 of 2,343 ▼ 116 | #12 of 14 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 341 | #1,727 of 2,585 | #9 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #1,519 of 2,338 | #7 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 0.6% | #2,385 of 2,388 | #12 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.7% | #1,584 of 2,534 | #8 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.2% | #571 of 1,757 | #3 of 12 |
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
341
-6 (-2%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 349
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 11.6:1
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 | 341 | 26.9 | 12.7:1 | 44% (149) |
| 2023-24 | 341 | 30 | 11.4:1 | 55% (188) |
| 2022-23 | 363 | 28.2 | 12.9:1 | 56% (205) |
| 2020-21 | 347 | 30 | 11.6:1 | 54% (186) |
| 2017-18 | 433 | 29 | 14.9:1 | 63% (271) |
| 2015-16 | 459 | 25 | 18.4:1 | 61% (280) |
| 2010-11 | 426 | 32 | 13.3:1 | 47% (199) |
| 2000-01 | 580 | 46 | 12.6:1 | 50% (289) |
| 1990-91 | 349 | 20 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary school based in NORWOOD, New York. It has an enrollment of 341 students in pre-K through 4. That compares with an average of about 443 students for elementary schools in New York.
Across its 3 schools, NORWOOD-NORFOLK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 907 students. NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
Of every 100 students at NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 100 are White. Census figures show St. Lawrence County is about 92% White. A diversity index of 1% means there is a 1% chance two randomly chosen students at NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
Staffing at NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes to 26.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.7:1. The ratio is within a point of the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. On the income side, 44% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 45% average for public schools in St. Lawrence County.
NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 23% of New York public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 40.2%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 58.9%.
In the surrounding county, St. Lawrence County, median household income comes to about $62,850, about 25% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. The county has 40 public schools and about 13,653 students.
NORWOOD-NORFOLK MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest public school to NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. Counting only straight-line distance, 2 other public schools are within five miles. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 9th on average proficiency.
Federal data place NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in the Rural: Distant locale, which means it is in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
In 2020-21, NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolled 347; in 2024-25, 341. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 12.7:1, from 11.6:1.
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St. Lawrence County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
107,226
Census ACS
Median income
$62,850
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
40
13,653 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NORWOOD-NORFOLK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NORWOOD-NORFOLK SCHOOLHigh · 290 students
- NORWOOD-NORFOLK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 276 students
Other schools in NORWOOD
- NORWOOD-NORFOLK SCHOOLHigh · 290 students
- NORWOOD-NORFOLK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 276 students
Nearby schools
- NORWOOD-NORFOLK MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 276
- NORWOOD-NORFOLK SCHOOL0.0 mi · 290
- A A KINGSTON MIDDLE SCHOOL6.8 mi · 393
- LAWRENCE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL6.9 mi · 526
- POTSDAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL6.9 mi · 373
- MADRID-WADDINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL8.1 mi · 303
Frequently asked questions
About NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 341 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-04.
How many students per teacher at NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.7:1 students per teacher at NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 100% White, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
NORWOOD-NORFOLK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by NORWOOD-NORFOLK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in St. Lawrence County.
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