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How has PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
391
Elementary
DISTRICT 353 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELMIRA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361056004387
PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL
216 MT ZOAR ST, ELMIRA, NY 14904 · (607) 735-3650 · Chemung County
GRADES 03–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL391 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of New York public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
13.4:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
334 students
DISTRICT 73% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 108 | 28% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 104 | 27% |
| Grade 6 | 97 | 25% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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 ELMIRA CITY 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
23.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
28.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.0% | 28.0% |
| 2023-24 | 14.0% | 17.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
19.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-24.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 44% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL
PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL's state test result (19.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL this school | 391 | 85.4% | 19.5% |
| RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY ELMIRA | 375 | 84.8% | N/A |
| CASEY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AUBURN | 381 | 81.6% | 25.5% |
| GENESEE STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AUBURN | 369 | 85.1% | 25.2% |
| THOMAS K BEECHER SCHOOL ELMIRA | 338 | 86.1% | 13.3% |
| TRUMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LACKAWANNA | 404 | 79.0% | N/A |
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 PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Chemung County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.5% | #2,244 of 2,335 | #10 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #2,137 of 2,342 ▲ 118 | #9 of 11 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.0% | #2,245 of 2,343 ▲ 24 | #10 of 11 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 391 | #1,415 of 2,585 | #5 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #1,741 of 2,338 | #8 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.1% | #932 of 2,388 | #5 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.4% | #597 of 2,534 | #2 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.1% | #542 of 1,757 | #3 of 13 |
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
391
-66 (-14%) vs 2020
-57% since 1990-91, when it was 920
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 17.6:1
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 | 391 | 29.1 | 13.4:1 | 85% (334) |
| 2023-24 | 410 | 31.1 | 13.2:1 | 82% (337) |
| 2022-23 | 424 | 26 | 16.3:1 | 85% (359) |
| 2020-21 | 457 | 26 | 17.6:1 | 77% (350) |
| 2017-18 | 502 | 35 | 14.3:1 | 78% (391) |
| 2015-16 | 528 | 35 | 15.1:1 | 76% (402) |
| 2010-11 | 494 | 43 | 11.5:1 | 78% (384) |
| 2000-01 | 797 | 58 | 13.7:1 | 56% (444) |
| 1990-91 | 920 | 46 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL.
About PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL
PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL is an elementary school in ELMIRA, New York, reachable at (607) 735-3650. The student body numbers 391 students, from grades 3 through 6.
ELMIRA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT is responsible for 11 schools, PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL included, with 5,322 students in all.
A majority of students at PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL, 62%, are White. Other reported shares: 19% multiracial, 12% Black, and 5% Hispanic. Chemung County's residents are about 85% White, 23 points above the school's share. PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL has a diversity index of 56%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL employs 29.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 13.4:1. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is about 12.8:1. PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 85%. The 56% average for public schools in Chemung County is 29 points lower.
PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL is graded F by allk12, scoring above 3% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL is -24.1 points, in the bottom 10% of New York. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 19.5%, and the predicted rate is 43.6%.
In the county around the school, Chemung County, median household income is about $63,716, about 27% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 12%. A total of 24 public schools operate in Chemung County, serving about 10,788 students.
The closest public school, RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY, is about 0.7 miles from PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 36.9%; PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL's is 19.5%, ranking 6th of 7.
NCES describes the area around PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL as City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The number of students dropped from 457 to 391 over 4 years. The school's ratio fell from 17.6:1 to 13.4:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Chemung County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
82,147
Census ACS
Median income
$63,716
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
24
10,788 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ELMIRA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,273 students
- ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMYMiddle · 844 students
- HENDY AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 391 students
- BROADWAY ACADEMYHigh · 379 students
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARYElementary · 375 students
- BROADWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 364 students
Other schools in ELMIRA
- ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,273 students
- ERNIE DAVIS ACADEMYMiddle · 844 students
- FINN ACADEMY: AN ELMIRA CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 411 students
- HENDY AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 391 students
- BROADWAY ACADEMYHigh · 379 students
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARYElementary · 375 students
Nearby schools
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY0.7 mi · 375
- ELMIRA HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,273
- ELMIRA PSYCHIATRIC CENTER0.9 mi · 4
- FINN ACADEMY: AN ELMIRA CHARTER SCHOOL1.2 mi · 411
- THOMAS K BEECHER SCHOOL1.2 mi · 338
- BROADWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 364
Frequently asked questions
About PARLEY COBURN SCHOOLHow large is PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL?
PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL enrolls approximately 391 students in grades 03-06.
Is PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades 03-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL is approximately 13.4:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL?
At PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 62% White, 5% Hispanic, 12% Black, 0% Asian, 19% Two or more.
Who oversees PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL?
PARLEY COBURN SCHOOL is overseen by ELMIRA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Chemung County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.