Enrollment
363
Elementary
DISTRICT 317 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360246000020
PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
41 N ALLEN ST, ALBANY, NY 12203 · (518) 475-6725 · Albany County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL363 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% of New York public elementary schools
- C-Test 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
14.3:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
247 students
DISTRICT 67% · 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 | 61 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
76%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
44.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
29.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.0pp 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 29 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 are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 29.0% |
| 2023-24 | 38.0% | 31.0% |
% 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
32.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (32.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 363 | 68.0% | 32.2% |
| AUSTIN STEWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 46 ROCHESTER | 343 | 66.5% | 30.0% |
| SALEM HYDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 466 | 70.4% | 22.9% |
| SCHOOL 15-CHILDREN'S SCHOOL OF ROCHESTER (THE) ROCHESTER | 384 | 74.0% | 30.9% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-COBBLE HILL BROOKLYN | 260 | 63.1% | 93.0% |
| ELMWOOD VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL HERTEL BUFFALO | 416 | 68.0% | 39.0% |
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 PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Albany County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.2% | #1,950 of 2,335 | #40 of 46 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.0% | #2,114 of 2,342 ▼ 134 | #41 of 46 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,601 of 2,343 ▼ 215 | #36 of 46 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 363 | #1,594 of 2,585 | #26 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #1,920 of 2,338 | #36 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.0% | #25 of 2,388 | #3 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.0% | #1,007 of 2,534 | #14 of 47 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.7% | #1,560 of 1,757 | #27 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
363
+5 (+1%) vs 2020
-47% since 1990-91, when it was 684
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 363 | 25.5 | 14.3:1 | 68% (247) |
| 2023-24 | 347 | 28.3 | 12.3:1 | 63% (220) |
| 2022-23 | 333 | 22.8 | 14.6:1 | 72% (241) |
| 2020-21 | 358 | 27 | 13.3:1 | 70% (251) |
| 2017-18 | 377 | 25 | 15.1:1 | 46% (172) |
| 2015-16 | 438 | 27 | 16.2:1 | 61% (265) |
| 2010-11 | 390 | 33 | 11.8:1 | 63% (247) |
| 2000-01 | 532 | 39 | 13.6:1 | 69% (367) |
| 1990-91 | 684 | 29 | 23.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in ALBANY, New York, according to federal school records. The school counted 363 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 5.
ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT is the local district for PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. It runs 16 schools with 8,509 students.
About 36% of students at PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Black, the largest single group. Other reported shares: 24% Hispanic, 18% White, 13% Asian, and 9% multiracial. Albany County's residents are about 12% Black, 24 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 76% means there is a 76% chance two randomly chosen students at PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a ratio of 14.3 students per teacher, from 25.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 14.3:1 compares with an average of 12.8:1 for elementary schools in New York. Lunch program data show 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The 45% average for public schools in Albany County is 23 points lower.
Among New York public elementary schools, PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 14%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
A school with PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 50.0%. PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 32.2%, 17.8 points below that line.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Albany County show that median household income comes to about $85,333, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 46% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 8%. The county's public schools total 75, with about 39,946 students.
Measured in a straight line, ALBANY HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.4 miles from PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The five-mile area around PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in 7th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Mid-size, or inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Federal data show 358 students in 2020-21 and 363 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 13.3:1; by 2024-25 it was 14.3:1.
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Albany County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
317,018
Census ACS
Median income
$85,333
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
75
39,946 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ALBANY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,937 students
- WILLIAM S HACKETT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 615 students
- NORTH ALBANY ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 588 students
- STEPHEN AND HARRIET MYERS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 570 students
- NEW SCOTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 451 students
- GIFFEN MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 387 students
Other schools in ALBANY
- ALBANY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,937 students
- COLONIE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,640 students
- SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 873 students
- KIPP TECH VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 840 students
- KIPP ALBANY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 688 students
- LISHA KILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 640 students
Other Pine Hills Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Pine Hills Elementary. PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- PINE HILLS ELEMENTARYORLANDO, FL · 671 students
Nearby schools
- ALBANY HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 2,937
- HENRY JOHNSON CHARTER SCHOOL0.7 mi · 346
- ROOTS ACADEMY AT WEST HILL0.7 mi · 283
- NEW SCOTLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 451
- BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS1.0 mi · 316
- BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BOYS1.1 mi · 240
Frequently asked questions
About PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 363 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.3:1.
What is the student diversity at PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 18% White, 24% Hispanic, 36% Black, 13% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of ALBANY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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