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What's something SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
549
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362271003197
SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1750 SCRIBNER RD, PENFIELD, NY 14526 · (585) 249-6400 · Monroe County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL549 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
9.2:1
60 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
104 students
DISTRICT 22% · 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 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 100 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 100 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 10% smaller than its 5th grade class (100).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 35% · 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 PENFIELD 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
73.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
75.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 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 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.0% | 75.0% |
| 2023-24 | 59.0% | 71.0% |
% 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
68.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (68.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 549 | 18.9% | 68.6% |
| BROOKS HILL SCHOOL FAIRPORT | 549 | 20.4% | 65.9% |
| ORENDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLIFTON PARK | 548 | 20.1% | 61.8% |
| CHANGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BALLSTON LAKE | 510 | 16.5% | 76.7% |
| FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WILLIAMSVILLE | 515 | 23.3% | 72.2% |
| PLANK ROAD SOUTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEBSTER | 562 | 14.6% | 60.8% |
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 SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Monroe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.6% | #443 of 2,335 | #12 of 97 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #535 of 2,342 ▲ 10 | #11 of 97 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #443 of 2,343 ▲ 109 | #9 of 97 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 549 | #639 of 2,585 | #19 of 106 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.2:1 | #199 of 2,338 | #2 of 99 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.9% | #1,694 of 2,388 | #83 of 99 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.9% | #2,262 of 2,534 | #96 of 106 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.7% | #528 of 606 | #27 of 31 |
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
549
+8 (+1%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 524
Student : Teacher
9.2:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 549 | 60 | 9.2:1 | 19% (104) |
| 2023-24 | 565 | 58.5 | 9.7:1 | 19% (108) |
| 2022-23 | 567 | 45.9 | 12.3:1 | 17% (98) |
| 2020-21 | 541 | 46 | 11.8:1 | 17% (93) |
| 2017-18 | 540 | 43 | 12.6:1 | 14% (74) |
| 2015-16 | 547 | 40 | 13.7:1 | 12% (64) |
| 2010-11 | 495 | 39 | 12.7:1 | 7% (35) |
| 2000-01 | 531 | 36 | 14.8:1 | 8% (42) |
| 1990-91 | 524 | 35 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in PENFIELD, New York, according to federal school records. Total enrollment is 549 students, and the grades served are kindergarten through 5. It has 24% more students than the average for elementary schools in New York (about 443).
Enrollment across the 6 schools in PENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT totals 4,651 students.
At SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 79% of students are White. It is also 6% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% Asian, and 4% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Monroe County is roughly 70% White. The diversity index for SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 37%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a ratio of 9.2 students per teacher, from 60 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is 12.8:1. Lunch program data show 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Among public schools in Monroe County, the average eligibility rate is 50%.
SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 68.6%, compared with a predicted 68.0%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Monroe County, home to about 753,753 people, the median household earns about $76,382 a year, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shares Monroe County with 185 other public schools.
Measured in a straight line, BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL is less than a tenth of a mile from SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in 4th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 541 to 549. Its ratio of students to teachers was 11.8:1 in 2020-21, and 9.2:1 in 2024-25.
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Monroe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
753,753
Census ACS
Median income
$76,382
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
186
106,108 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PENFIELD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,442 students
- BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,094 students
- INDIAN LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 545 students
- COBBLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 542 students
- HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 479 students
Other schools in PENFIELD
- PENFIELD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,442 students
- BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,094 students
- COBBLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 542 students
- HARRIS HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 479 students
Nearby schools
- BAY TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 1,094
- PLANK ROAD SOUTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 562
- PENFIELD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.6 mi · 1,442
- COBBLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 542
- PLANK ROAD NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 499
- INDIAN LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 545
Frequently asked questions
About SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 549 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 9.2:1 (60 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 79% White, 6% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
SCRIBNER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of PENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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