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Enrollment
412
Elementary
DISTRICT 517 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINE BUSH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362301003227
PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1953 RT 302, CIRCLEVILLE, NY 10919 · (845) 744-2031 · Orange County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL412 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 24% 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
14.6:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
189 students
DISTRICT 44% · 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 | 54 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 54 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
44.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
42.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 42.0% |
| 2023-24 | 38.0% | 42.0% |
% 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
40.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (40.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 412 | 45.9% | 40.6% |
| CENTRAL VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CENTRAL VALLEY | 375 | 46.9% | 46.8% |
| WOODS ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH BABYLON | 355 | 45.6% | 24.7% |
| WILLIAM E DELUCA JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH BABYLON | 401 | 51.6% | 18.8% |
| SOUTH COUNTRY SCHOOL BAY SHORE | 496 | 43.1% | 38.8% |
| BELMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH BABYLON | 375 | 52.8% | 37.4% |
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 PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.6% | #1,585 of 2,335 | #28 of 40 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #1,775 of 2,342 ▼ 155 | #32 of 40 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,623 of 2,343 ▼ 215 | #29 of 40 ▼ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 412 | #1,296 of 2,585 | #34 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #1,981 of 2,338 | #38 of 43 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.4% | #248 of 2,388 | #1 of 43 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.9% | #1,523 of 2,534 | #20 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.9% | #762 of 1,757 | #7 of 31 |
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
412
-6 (-1%) vs 2020
-33% since 1990-91, when it was 611
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 412 | 28.2 | 14.6:1 | 46% (189) |
| 2023-24 | 400 | 28.1 | 14.2:1 | 66% (263) |
| 2022-23 | 422 | 32.2 | 13.1:1 | 64% (269) |
| 2020-21 | 418 | 26 | 16.1:1 | 64% (268) |
| 2017-18 | 496 | 35.5 | 14.0:1 | 60% (300) |
| 2015-16 | 483 | 33 | 14.6:1 | 59% (287) |
| 2010-11 | 472 | 29 | 16.3:1 | 45% (212) |
| 2000-01 | 511 | 35 | 14.6:1 | 23% (116) |
| 1990-91 | 611 | 39 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school in CIRCLEVILLE, New York, (ZIP code 10919). The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 412 students.
The district, PINE BUSH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, operates 7 schools serving 4,710 students.
About 41% of students at PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Hispanic, the largest single group. It is also 30% White, 21% Black, 5% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Orange County's residents are about 24% Hispanic, 17 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 69, compared with 70 nationally.
PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1, with 28.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York, this school's ratio is higher. The school has 46% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Orange County is similar, at 44%.
On the allk12 Grade, PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at C-, ahead of 24% of New York public elementary schools.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 58.1%. PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 40.6%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Orange County show that median household income comes to about $97,178, roughly 33% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Orange County counts 82 public schools with about 57,122 students.
Among nearby public schools, CIRCLEVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is closest at less than a tenth of a mile. PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with 5 others within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 40.8%, higher than PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 40.6%.
NCES describes the area around PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as Rural: Fringe, meaning in rural territory close to an urban area.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 418 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 412. Its ratio of students to teachers was 16.1:1 in 2020-21, and 14.6:1 in 2024-25.
This community page is for conversations about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
406,616
Census ACS
Median income
$97,178
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
82
57,122 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PINE BUSH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PINE BUSH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,562 students
- PINE BUSH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 648 students
- CRISPELL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 614 students
- E J RUSSELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 524 students
- CIRCLEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 484 students
- CIRCLEVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 466 students
Other schools in CIRCLEVILLE
- CIRCLEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 484 students
- CIRCLEVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 466 students
Nearby schools
- CIRCLEVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 466
- CIRCLEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 484
- MIDDLETOWN HIGH SCHOOL4.7 mi · 2,495
- PRESIDENTIAL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.7 mi · 1,225
- MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL4.8 mi · 820
- WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL5.1 mi · 746
Frequently asked questions
About PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 412 students in grades PK-05.
Is PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1.
What is the student diversity at PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 30% White, 41% Hispanic, 21% Black, 5% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
PAKANASINK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of PINE BUSH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.