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PULASKI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PULASKI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a reasonably sized elementary campus in PULASKI, New York, PULASKI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL teaches 422 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under PULASKI CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
PULASKI CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 929 students. PULASKI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, PULASKI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, PULASKI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.5:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, PULASKI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.4%, the actual is 41.0%, a residual of -13.4 points.
In the area at large, Oswego County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,183 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Oswego County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,529 students), PULASKI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is PULASKI MIDDLE-HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 1.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PULASKI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 49.6%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Over the past 7-year window. PULASKI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 471 (now 422). Class-load math has tightened: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.
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