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What's something PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
468
Elementary
DISTRICT 385 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362601003587
PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
104 ELLIOTT AVE, SCHENECTADY, NY 12304 · (518) 881-3520 · Schenectady County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL468 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% 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.
- 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
11.9:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
348 students
DISTRICT 80% · 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 | 52 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (73).
Student demographics
79%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 79% · 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
38.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
27.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.0pp 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 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 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.0% | 27.0% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 29.0% |
% 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
29.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (29.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 468 | 74.4% | 29.5% |
| ROSCOE CONKLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UTICA | 503 | 79.3% | 29.3% |
| WOODLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 502 | 81.3% | 27.4% |
| JESSIE T ZOLLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 439 | 75.6% | 41.0% |
| CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UTICA | 618 | 79.1% | 35.5% |
| PS 193 GIL HODGES BROOKLYN | 487 | 77.4% | 51.8% |
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 PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Schenectady County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.5% | #2,026 of 2,335 | #16 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #2,160 of 2,342 ▼ 102 | #20 of 24 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #1,898 of 2,343 ▼ 27 | #15 of 24 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 468 | #976 of 2,585 | #6 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #1,247 of 2,338 | #17 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 79.1% | #4 of 2,388 | #4 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.4% | #907 of 2,534 | #11 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.9% | #1,218 of 1,757 | #10 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
468
+32 (+7%) vs 2020
+70% since 1990-91, when it was 276
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 468 | 39.2 | 11.9:1 | 74% (348) |
| 2023-24 | 454 | 39.2 | 11.6:1 | 67% (304) |
| 2022-23 | 420 | 39.8 | 10.5:1 | 69% (290) |
| 2020-21 | 436 | 36 | 12.1:1 | 59% (259) |
| 2017-18 | 514 | 36 | 14.3:1 | 70% (361) |
| 2015-16 | 472 | 29 | 16.3:1 | 49% (231) |
| 2010-11 | 469 | 40 | 11.7:1 | 49% (232) |
| 2000-01 | 400 | 21 | 19.1:1 | 32% (126) |
| 1990-91 | 276 | 11 | 25.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Located in SCHENECTADY, New York, PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school. It had 468 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5.
PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one school in a 15-school district, SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which enrolls 8,948 students.
The student body at PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has no majority group. Asian students lead at 29%. Other groups make up 21% Hispanic, 19% White, 17% Black, and 12% multiracial. Schenectady County as a whole is about 5% Asian, so the school's share is higher. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 79, compared with 70 nationally.
On staff are 39.2 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 11.9:1. Elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1, 0.9 more students per teacher than here. PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 74%. That is higher than the 50% average for public schools in Schenectady County.
Among New York public elementary schools, PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 11%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 29.5% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 47.6%.
In the surrounding county, Schenectady County, median household income comes to about $79,623, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county has 40 public schools and about 21,555 students.
WOODLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 1.1 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
NCES assigns PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased from 436 to 468, a 7% rise.
PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. You can also rate the school on this page.
Schenectady County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
160,369
Census ACS
Median income
$79,623
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
40
21,555 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,885 students
- ONEIDA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 657 students
- CENTRAL PARK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 600 students
- MONT PLEASANT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 569 students
- WOODLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 502 students
- HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 440 students
Other schools in SCHENECTADY
- SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,885 students
- NISKAYUNA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,379 students
- MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 924 students
- JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 671 students
- ONEIDA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 657 students
- DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 655 students
Nearby schools
- WOODLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 502
- LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 306
- CENTRAL PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 600
- WILLIAM C KEANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 279
- HOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 390
- HILLSIDE SCHOOL1.5 mi · 383
Frequently asked questions
About PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 468 students in grades PK-05.
Is PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.9:1.
What is the student diversity at PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 19% White, 21% Hispanic, 17% Black, 29% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.