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Enrollment
456
Elementary
DISTRICT 624 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WARWICK VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362997004032
PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
10 PARK AVE, WARWICK, NY 10990 · (845) 987-3000 · Orange County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY31-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL456 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 84% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
13.1:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
97 students
DISTRICT 20% · 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 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 88 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 96 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 107 | 23% |
| Grade 4 | 92 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is 21% smaller than its 4th grade class (92).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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 WARWICK VALLEY CENTRAL 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
78.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
76.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.0% | 76.0% |
| 2023-24 | 66.0% | 78.0% |
% 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
74.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (74.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 456 | 21.3% | 74.4% |
| LIDO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LONG BEACH | 468 | 20.1% | 77.0% |
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL YORKTOWN HEIGHTS | 466 | 21.7% | 66.5% |
| LEPTONDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WALLKILL | 460 | 24.6% | 45.0% |
| MINISINK VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIDDLETOWN | 454 | 18.3% | N/A |
| SCHOOL 2 OCEANSIDE | 407 | 21.9% | 59.5% |
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 PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 74.4% | #274 of 2,335 | #4 of 40 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #512 of 2,342 ▼ 155 | #4 of 40 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #311 of 2,343 ▲ 40 | #2 of 40 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 456 | #1,043 of 2,585 | #28 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #1,644 of 2,338 | #36 of 43 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.1% | #1,047 of 2,388 | #26 of 43 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.3% | #2,202 of 2,534 | #40 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.8% | #1,615 of 1,757 | #29 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
456
+55 (+14%) vs 2020
+13% since 1990-91, when it was 405
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 456 | 34.9 | 13.1:1 | 21% (97) |
| 2023-24 | 477 | 34.3 | 13.9:1 | 20% (96) |
| 2022-23 | 482 | 32 | 15.1:1 | 22% (105) |
| 2020-21 | 401 | 27 | 14.8:1 | 19% (75) |
| 2017-18 | 469 | 31 | 15.1:1 | 20% (93) |
| 2015-16 | 465 | 29 | 16.0:1 | 18% (85) |
| 2010-11 | 425 | 32 | 13.3:1 | 16% (66) |
| 2000-01 | 472 | 31 | 15.2:1 | 12% (58) |
| 1990-91 | 405 | 23 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Federal records list PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as an elementary school in WARWICK, New York. It had 456 students in 2024-25, spanning kindergarten through 4.
WARWICK VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT has 3,630 students spread across 4 schools.
More than half of the students at PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are White (63%). The rest of enrollment is 24% Hispanic, 7% Black, and 5% multiracial. That is in line with Orange County, where about 62% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 54%.
Its ratio of 13.1:1 is based on 34.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. In all, 21% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Orange County, the average is 44%.
PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 84% of New York public elementary schools.
Test results at PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are 7.3 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (74.4% actual, 67.2% predicted).
The school is in Orange County, where the median household earns about $97,178 a year, about 33% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shares Orange County with 81 other public schools.
Of the public schools around it, PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest to WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 1.8 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is 5. PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 3rd of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
By NCES locale, the school is Town: Fringe, or in a town close to an urbanized area.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased from 401 to 456, a 14% rise. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (13.1:1) than in 2020-21 (14.8:1).
The discussion board for PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is open to topics like athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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 WARWICK VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WARWICK VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,314 students
- WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,069 students
- SANFORDVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 791 students
Other schools in WARWICK
- WARWICK VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,314 students
- WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,069 students
- SANFORDVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 791 students
Other Park Avenue Elementary schools
11 other US public schools in 10 states are named Park Avenue Elementary. PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 6th largest of the 12.
- Park Avenue ElementaryWebster, MA · 738 students
- PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSTUTTGART, AR · 641 students
- Park Avenue ElementaryYuba City, CA · 541 students
- Park Avenue Elementary SchoolMount Gilead, OH · 475 students
- Park Avenue Elementary SchoolFreehold, NJ · 463 students
Nearby schools
- WARWICK VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 1,069
- WARWICK VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL1.9 mi · 1,314
- SANFORDVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 791
- GREENWOOD LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.5 mi · 191
- Upper Greenwood Lake Elementary School5.0 mi · 250
- GREENWOOD LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL5.0 mi · 226
Frequently asked questions
About PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 456 students in grades KG-04.
What grades does PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 13.1:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 63% White, 24% Hispanic, 7% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
PARK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by WARWICK VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.