Enrollment
249
Elementary
DISTRICT 319 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TROY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362895003913
PS 2
470 10TH ST, TROY, NY 12180 · (518) 328-5601 · Rensselaer County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL249 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 8% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest 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
7.5:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
226 students
DISTRICT 72% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 13 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 28 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 34 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 37 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 40 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 8 | 3% |
This year's kindergarten class (28) is 30% smaller than its 5th grade class (40).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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 TROY 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% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
24.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -15.0pp 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 24 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 15 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.0% | 24.0% |
| 2023-24 | 17.0% | 39.0% |
% 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
23.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 PS 2
PS 2's state test result (23.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS 2 this school | 249 | 90.8% | 23.0% |
| BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BOYS ALBANY | 240 | 90.8% | 51.9% |
| PS 307 DANIEL HALE WILLIAMS BROOKLYN | 270 | 84.1% | 20.9% |
| PS 65 ROOSEVELT ECC BUFFALO | 250 | 94.4% | 34.9% |
| SHERIDAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY ALBANY | 284 | 85.2% | 32.3% |
| PS 175 HENRY H GARNET NEW YORK | 291 | 89.0% | 32.3% |
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 PS 2 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Rensselaer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.0% | #2,194 of 2,335 | #21 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #2,215 of 2,342 ▼ 467 | #21 of 21 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.0% | #2,256 of 2,343 ▼ 24 | #21 of 21 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 249 | #2,235 of 2,585 | #21 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.5:1 | #38 of 2,338 | #3 of 22 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.5% | #204 of 2,388 | #4 of 22 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.8% | #375 of 2,534 | #1 of 22 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.6% | #988 of 1,757 | #8 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
249
-30 (-11%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 477
Student : Teacher
7.5:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 249 | 33.1 | 7.5:1 | 91% (226) |
| 2023-24 | 272 | 32.7 | 8.3:1 | 94% (256) |
| 2022-23 | 278 | 33 | 8.4:1 | 92% (257) |
| 2020-21 | 279 | 27 | 10.3:1 | 93% (259) |
| 2017-18 | 285 | 33 | 8.6:1 | 96% (273) |
| 2015-16 | 309 | 32 | 9.7:1 | 98% (304) |
| 2010-11 | 409 | 34 | 12.0:1 | 93% (379) |
| 2000-01 | 397 | 35 | 11.3:1 | 71% (281) |
| 1990-91 | 477 | 33 | 14.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PS 2.
About PS 2
At 470 10TH ST in TROY, New York, PS 2 operates as a small elementary school. Enrollment stands at 249 students, covering pre-K through 5. That is 44% below the average of about 443 students for elementary schools in New York.
The TROY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT system has 7 schools and 3,522 students.
Black students account for 43% of enrollment at PS 2, more than any other group. Enrollment also includes 24% Hispanic, 19% White, and 13% multiracial. Among people living in Rensselaer County, the Black share is about 7%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PS 2 scores 70%.
Its staff includes 33.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 7.5 students per teacher. Compared with the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York, this school's ratio is lower. Roughly 91% of students at PS 2 can receive free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Rensselaer County is 46%.
PS 2 holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 8% of New York public elementary schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, PS 2 is 18.6 points below its prediction. Actual: 23.0%. Predicted: 41.6%.
The school is in Rensselaer County, where median household income comes to about $87,915, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Rensselaer County counts 42 public schools with about 19,274 students.
HEATLY SCHOOL is about 0.6 miles from PS 2, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, PS 2 ranks 9th on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Small, or inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, PS 2 had a net loss of 30 students, or 11%. The ratio of students to teachers went from 10.3:1 to 7.5:1 over the same years.
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Rensselaer County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
160,332
Census ACS
Median income
$87,915
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
42
19,274 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in TROY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- TROY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,193 students
- TROY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 733 students
- PS 14Elementary · 460 students
- CARROLL HILL SCHOOLElementary · 325 students
- PS 18Elementary · 313 students
- PS 16Elementary · 249 students
Other schools in TROY
- TROY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,193 students
- KIPP TROY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 762 students
- TROY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 733 students
- LANSINGBURGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 625 students
- TAMARAC MIDDLE SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOLCombined · 576 students
- TURNPIKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 542 students
Nearby schools
- HEATLY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 223
- PS 181.0 mi · 313
- TROY MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 733
- TROY HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 1,193
- LANSINGBURGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 625
- KNICKERBACKER MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 474
Frequently asked questions
About PS 2How large is PS 2?
PS 2 enrolls approximately 249 students in grades PK-05.
Is PS 2 an elementary, middle, or high school?
PS 2 is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PS 2?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PS 2 is approximately 7.5:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PS 2?
At PS 2, the student body is approximately 19% White, 24% Hispanic, 43% Black, 1% Asian, 13% Two or more.
What district is PS 2 in?
PS 2 is part of TROY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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