Enrollment
122
Elementary
DISTRICT 301 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·INDIAN RIVER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361530001289
PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL
3 SAND ST, PHILADELPHIA, NY 13673 · (315) 642-3432 · Jefferson County
GRADES PK–03ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL122 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 54% 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.
- BBeats 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
10.3:1
12 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
75 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 26 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 27 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 37 | 30% |
| Grade 3 | 32 | 26% |
Student demographics
38%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL→INDIAN RIVER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL→INDIAN RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL→INDIAN RIVER HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within INDIAN RIVER 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
44.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
68.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +7.0pp 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 68 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 up about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 68.0% |
| 2023-24 | 32.0% | 61.0% |
% 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
51.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL
PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL's state test result (51.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL this school | 122 | 61.5% | 51.3% |
| RIPLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL RIPLEY | 147 | 60.5% | 46.3% |
| ABRAHAM WING SCHOOL GLENS FALLS | 139 | 56.1% | 40.1% |
| CLIFTON-FINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STAR LAKE | 133 | 54.1% | 27.9% |
| ENFIELD SCHOOL ITHACA | 165 | 66.7% | 33.4% |
| ANTWERP PRIMARY SCHOOL ANTWERP | 145 | 50.3% | 36.3% |
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 PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.3% | #1,106 of 2,335 | #5 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #776 of 2,342 ▲ 115 | #2 of 20 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,615 of 2,343 ▲ 61 | #12 of 20 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 122 | #2,528 of 2,585 | #20 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.5% | #1,129 of 2,534 | #5 of 21 |
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
122
+2 (+2%) vs 2020
-59% since 1990-91, when it was 298
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
was 10.9:1
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 | 122 | 11.9 | 10.3:1 | 61% (75) |
| 2023-24 | 121 | 11.6 | 10.5:1 | 61% (74) |
| 2022-23 | 114 | 10.8 | 10.5:1 | 59% (67) |
| 2020-21 | 120 | 11 | 10.9:1 | 55% (66) |
| 2017-18 | 117 | 11 | 10.6:1 | 47% (55) |
| 2015-16 | 112 | 8 | 14.0:1 | 48% (54) |
| 2010-11 | 167 | 10 | 16.7:1 | 56% (94) |
| 2000-01 | 200 | 14 | 14.3:1 | 55% (110) |
| 1990-91 | 298 | 18 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL.
About PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL
PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL is an elementary school located in PHILADELPHIA, New York, in Jefferson County. Its grade span covers pre-K through 3, with 122 students on the rolls. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 72% below that mark.
District-wide, INDIAN RIVER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT has 8 schools and 3,326 students.
More than half of the students at PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL are White (78%). Next come 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 5% Black. The diversity index for PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL is 38%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
With 11.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 10.3:1. Elementary schools in New York have an average ratio of 12.8:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL, 61% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Jefferson County average 49%.
On the allk12 Grade, PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL lands at B-, ahead of 54% of New York public elementary schools.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL is 52.4%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 51.3%.
The school's county is Jefferson County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $66,301, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 27%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 39 public schools in the county, enrolling about 16,789, PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL among them.
INDIAN RIVER HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.9 miles from PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL holds 3 other public schools. PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL comes in 5th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Locale: Rural: Fringe. In NCES terms, the school is in rural territory close to an urban area.
The school's size has been steady, with 120 students in 2020-21 and 122 in 2024-25.
People can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
115,040
Census ACS
Median income
$66,301
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
39
16,789 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in INDIAN RIVER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- INDIAN RIVER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 791 students
- INDIAN RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 730 students
- INDIAN RIVER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 565 students
- CALCIUM PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 480 students
- EVANS MILLS PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 330 students
- THERESA PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 163 students
Other schools in PHILADELPHIA
- INDIAN RIVER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 791 students
- INDIAN RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 730 students
- INDIAN RIVER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 565 students
Nearby schools
- INDIAN RIVER HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 791
- INDIAN RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 730
- INDIAN RIVER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL1.6 mi · 565
- ANTWERP PRIMARY SCHOOL5.7 mi · 145
- THERESA PRIMARY SCHOOL6.0 mi · 163
- EVANS MILLS PRIMARY SCHOOL6.9 mi · 330
Frequently asked questions
About PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOLHow large is PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL?
PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 122 students in grades PK-03.
What grades does PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL serve?
PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-03.
How many teachers does PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL have?
PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL employs 12 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.3:1.
What is the student diversity at PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL are roughly 78% White, 8% Hispanic, 5% Black, 7% Two or more.
Is PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL public or private?
PHILADELPHIA PRIMARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by INDIAN RIVER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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