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Alumni: what's one memory from PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
470
Elementary
DISTRICT 479 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360594000388
PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
30 PASHLEY RD, SCOTIA, NY 12302 · (518) 399-9141 · Schenectady County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL470 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 66% of New York public elementary schools
- B+Test 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.
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
10.9:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
97 students
DISTRICT 19% · 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 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 86 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 15% |
| Ungraded | 5 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 7% larger than its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
24%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 20% · 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
PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→RICHARD H O'ROURKE MIDDLE SCHOOL→BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE 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
73.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +20.0pp since 2023
Math
71.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 20 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.0% | 71.0% |
| 2023-24 | 53.0% | 69.0% |
% 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
64.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% 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 PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (64.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 470 | 20.6% | 64.3% |
| QUEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HILTON | 459 | 20.7% | 54.1% |
| FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BALLSTON LAKE | 468 | 19.0% | 75.0% |
| K C HEFFERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MARCELLUS | 471 | 20.8% | 75.8% |
| L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BALDWINSVILLE | 467 | 17.1% | 62.8% |
| DUDLEY SCHOOL FAIRPORT | 482 | 17.8% | 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 PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Schenectady County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.3% | #585 of 2,335 | #5 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #664 of 2,342 ▼ 69 | #4 of 24 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #433 of 2,343 ▲ 317 | #3 of 24 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 470 | #964 of 2,585 | #5 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #768 of 2,338 | #8 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 24.0% | #2,021 of 2,388 | #21 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.6% | #2,219 of 2,534 | #22 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.8% | #350 of 606 | #3 of 7 |
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
470
+22 (+5%) vs 2020
-9% since 1990-91, when it was 514
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 470 | 43.3 | 10.9:1 | 21% (97) |
| 2023-24 | 481 | 43 | 11.2:1 | 24% (115) |
| 2022-23 | 462 | 43 | 10.8:1 | 20% (91) |
| 2020-21 | 448 | 34 | 13.2:1 | 15% (67) |
| 2017-18 | 440 | 32 | 13.8:1 | 20% (90) |
| 2015-16 | 419 | 33 | 12.7:1 | 16% (65) |
| 2010-11 | 399 | 32 | 12.5:1 | 10% (40) |
| 2000-01 | 461 | 32 | 14.4:1 | 7% (30) |
| 1990-91 | 514 | 29 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school in New York, located in SCOTIA. Enrollment totals 470 students across kindergarten through 5.
BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT has 3,105 students spread across 5 schools.
White students are 87% of those enrolled at PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The remaining shares are 6% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Schenectady County's population at about 69%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 24%.
The school has 43.3 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 10.9 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. The school reported 21% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Schenectady County is 50%.
Among New York public elementary schools, PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 66%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 64.3% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 67.4%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Schenectady County show that the median household earns about $79,623 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Across Schenectady County, 40 public schools serve about 21,555 students.
Of the public schools around it, PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest to CHARLTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 1.7 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 6th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 470, up from 448 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 13.2:1 to 10.9:1.
The PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL discussion page is a place for special education services, counseling, and support programs. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 965 students
- RICHARD H O'ROURKE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 704 students
- CHARLTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 498 students
- FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 468 students
Other schools in SCOTIA
- SCOTIA-GLENVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 689 students
- SCOTIA-GLENVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 489 students
- SACANDAGA SCHOOLElementary · 319 students
- GLENDAAL SCHOOLElementary · 224 students
- GLEN-WORDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 196 students
- LINCOLN SCHOOLElementary · 185 students
Nearby schools
- CHARLTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 498
- RICHARD H O'ROURKE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.7 mi · 704
- GLENCLIFF SCHOOL2.1 mi · 368
- BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.5 mi · 965
- GLEN-WORDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.6 mi · 196
- FRANCIS L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.7 mi · 468
Frequently asked questions
About PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 470 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 10.9:1 (43 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 87% White, 6% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
PASHLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by BURNT HILLS-BALLSTON LAKE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.