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Enrollment
591
Elementary
DISTRICT 597 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROTTERDAM-MOHONASEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360000404577
PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
901 KINGS RD, SCHENECTADY, NY 12303 · (518) 356-8430 · Schenectady County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL591 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 45% 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.
- 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
12.1:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
262 students
DISTRICT 41% · 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 | 196 | 33% |
| Grade 4 | 202 | 34% |
| Grade 5 | 180 | 30% |
| Ungraded | 13 | 2% |
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within ROTTERDAM-MOHONASEN 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
49.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
57.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.0% | 57.0% |
| 2023-24 | 45.0% | 52.0% |
% 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
49.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (49.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 591 | 44.3% | 49.6% |
| GEORGE F JOHNSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ENDICOTT | 570 | 46.7% | 36.0% |
| KARL W SAILE BEAR ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH SYRACUSE | 537 | 44.1% | 43.5% |
| HERBERT HOOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BUFFALO | 570 | 40.2% | 43.0% |
| FRED W HILL SCHOOL BROCKPORT | 500 | 45.6% | 39.9% |
| SULLIVAN WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JEFFERSONVILLE | 553 | 44.7% | 40.3% |
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 PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Schenectady County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.6% | #1,177 of 2,335 | #10 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #1,167 of 2,342 ▲ 33 | #10 of 24 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #1,357 of 2,343 ▼ 291 | #12 of 24 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 591 | #500 of 2,585 | #3 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #1,300 of 2,338 | #18 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.3% | #1,271 of 2,388 | #16 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.3% | #1,569 of 2,534 | #13 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.9% | #1,346 of 1,757 | #12 of 17 |
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
591
-49 (-8%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 601
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 591 | 49 | 12.1:1 | 44% (262) |
| 2023-24 | 604 | 45.6 | 13.3:1 | 47% (282) |
| 2022-23 | 594 | 45.9 | 12.9:1 | 48% (284) |
| 2020-21 | 640 | 42 | 15.2:1 | 40% (258) |
| 2017-18 | 635 | 41 | 15.5:1 | 41% (259) |
| 2015-16 | 608 | 39 | 15.6:1 | 40% (244) |
| 2010-11 | 630 | 49 | 12.9:1 | 26% (163) |
| 2000-01 | 826 | 45 | 18.4:1 | 15% (128) |
| 1990-91 | 601 | 32 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
This page covers PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a medium-sized elementary school in SCHENECTADY, New York. It serves 591 students in grades 3 through 5. For comparison, elementary schools in New York average about 443 students.
PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belongs to ROTTERDAM-MOHONASEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district of 4 schools and 2,772 students.
At PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, White students make up 70% of the student body. The remaining shares are 9% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 3% Asian. County-wide, about 69% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 49% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Dividing enrollment by its 49 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 12.1:1. That is lower than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Eligible students account for 44% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program.
The allk12 Grade for PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is B-. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 45% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency rate on state tests of 49.6% is 9.1 points below the 58.7% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
According to the American Community Survey, in Schenectady County, the median household income is $79,623, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 40 public schools in the county.
Nearest public school: WOODLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.8 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 39.2%; PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's is 49.6%, ranking 4th of 8.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show an 8% enrollment decrease, from 640 in 2020-21 to 591 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 15.2:1 to 12.1:1.
Posts about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs are welcome on this page. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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 ROTTERDAM-MOHONASEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 924 students
- DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 655 students
- HERMAN L BRADT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 602 students
Other schools in SCHENECTADY
- SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,885 students
- NISKAYUNA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,379 students
- MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 924 students
- JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 671 students
- ONEIDA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 657 students
- DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 655 students
Other Pinewood Elementary schools
16 other US public schools in 10 states are named Pinewood Elementary. PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 5th largest of the 17.
- Pinewood ElementaryMONTICELLO, MN · 794 students
- PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLEAGLE LAKE, FL · 740 students
- PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSTUART, FL · 658 students
- Pinewood ElementaryTimonium, MD · 598 students
- PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLNORTH LAUDERDALE, FL · 551 students
Nearby schools
- WOODLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 502
- HERMAN L BRADT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 602
- PAIGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 468
- PINE BUSH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 462
- DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL2.0 mi · 655
- MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.0 mi · 924
Frequently asked questions
About PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 591 students in grades 03-05.
What grades does PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades 03-05.
How many teachers does PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 49 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 70% White, 9% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of ROTTERDAM-MOHONASEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.