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Enrollment
410
Elementary
DISTRICT 383 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAUGERTIES CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362580003547
RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
70 PLENTY ST, GLASCO, NY 12432 · (845) 247-6870 · Ulster County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL410 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 38% 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.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
12.2:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
142 students
DISTRICT 43% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 18% |
| Grade 6 | 71 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 27% smaller than its 6th grade class (71).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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 SAUGERTIES 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
45.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
59.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.0% | 59.0% |
| 2023-24 | 35.0% | 56.0% |
% 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
48.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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 RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (48.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 410 | 34.6% | 48.4% |
| EAST ROCHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST ROCHESTER | 432 | 37.5% | 46.1% |
| STATE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEBSTER | 469 | 34.1% | 50.3% |
| CHURCHVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHURCHVILLE | 421 | 32.8% | 53.4% |
| RIDGE MILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ROME | 388 | 33.2% | 48.6% |
| CAROLINE STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SARATOGA SPRINGS | 372 | 30.4% | 62.8% |
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 RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Ulster County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.4% | #1,224 of 2,335 | #11 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #1,118 of 2,342 ▼ 32 | #8 of 21 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #1,573 of 2,343 ▼ 34 | #16 of 21 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 410 | #1,304 of 2,585 | #8 of 22 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #1,338 of 2,338 | #18 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.4% | #1,487 of 2,388 | #15 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.6% | #1,851 of 2,534 | #15 of 22 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +33.6% | #71 of 606 | N/A |
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
410
+73 (+22%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 480
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 410 | 33.6 | 12.2:1 | 35% (142) |
| 2023-24 | 423 | 35.2 | 12.0:1 | 35% (146) |
| 2022-23 | 428 | 33.1 | 12.9:1 | 33% (142) |
| 2020-21 | 337 | 22 | 15.3:1 | 30% (100) |
| 2017-18 | 307 | 24 | 12.8:1 | 33% (102) |
| 2015-16 | 299 | 20 | 14.9:1 | 36% (107) |
| 2010-11 | 380 | 28 | 13.6:1 | 28% (107) |
| 2000-01 | 464 | 25 | 18.6:1 | 13% (62) |
| 1990-91 | 480 | 24 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
In GLASCO, New York, RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school. It is open to students in kindergarten through 6 and enrolls 410 students.
The district, SAUGERTIES CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, has 2,287 students enrolled across 5 schools.
About 74% of the student body at RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White. Enrollment also includes 12% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 4% Black. Ulster County residents are about 75% White, a similar share. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 43%.
Based on 33.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a ratio of 12.2:1. The ratio is within a point of the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 35%.
On the allk12 Grade, RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at C+, ahead of 38% of New York public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 48.4% actual against 62.3% predicted.
American Community Survey estimates for Ulster County show that the median household earns about $86,271 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Ulster County has 45 public schools with about 20,189 students, including RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
CAHILL SCHOOL is about 2.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number 7. Ranked by average proficiency, RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 7th out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
The NCES locale for RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Suburb: Small, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
The school's enrollment rose 22% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 15.3:1 to 12.2:1.
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Ulster County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
182,601
Census ACS
Median income
$86,271
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
45
20,189 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SAUGERTIES CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SAUGERTIES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 800 students
- CAHILL SCHOOLElementary · 432 students
- SAUGERTIES JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 338 students
- MORSE SCHOOLElementary · 307 students
- MOUNT MARION ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCombined
Nearby schools
- CAHILL SCHOOL2.2 mi · 432
- SAUGERTIES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.8 mi · 800
- SAUGERTIES JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.8 mi · 338
- MILL ROAD-PRIMARY GRADES4.4 mi · 306
- MILL ROAD-ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.4 mi · 636
- RED HOOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL4.6 mi · 549
Frequently asked questions
About RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 410 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 12.2:1 (34 FTE teachers).
How diverse is RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 74% White, 12% Hispanic, 4% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
RICCARDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by SAUGERTIES CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Ulster County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.