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RONALD L SODOMA 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 RONALD L SODOMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Set in ALBION, New York, RONALD L SODOMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an expansive elementary-level community, run under ALBION CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 826 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so RONALD L SODOMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 86% above that benchmark.
Within ALBION CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 1,725 students, RONALD L SODOMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
On demographics, RONALD L SODOMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that White students make up the majority at 73%. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 11% Black, 2% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.
Looking at school resources, RONALD L SODOMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
With demographic context factored in, RONALD L SODOMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.1%, the actual is 40.6%, a residual of -16.5 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Orleans County indicate median household earnings sit near $65,969, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Orleans County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,767 students), of which RONALD L SODOMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
CHARLES D'AMICO HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RONALD L SODOMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 54.0%.
The campus sits in a town-center setting.
Looking at the recent track record. RONALD L SODOMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 7% since 2018, when it stood at 886 (now 826). Class-load math has fell: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.
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