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SCOTT M ELLIS 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 54 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 SCOTT M ELLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SCOTT M ELLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a primary school of mid-tier scale in GREENVILLE, New York, part of GREENVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructing 480 students in grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 3 schools in GREENVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,056 students total), SCOTT M ELLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, SCOTT M ELLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that nearly all students (93%) are White. Beyond that, the school lists 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting SCOTT M ELLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 38% of students at SCOTT M ELLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Greene County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, SCOTT M ELLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.0%; this one delivers 51.0%.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Greene County indicate median household income runs about $77,945, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. SCOTT M ELLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 16 public schools in Greene County (combined enrollment of about 5,042 students).
Nearest neighbor: GREENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SCOTT M ELLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.6%.
Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.
Over the past 7-year window. SCOTT M ELLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 502 (now 480). Class-load math has loosened: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.
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