Enrollment
354
Elementary
DISTRICT 377 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH COLONIE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362721003711
SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
512 ALBANY SHAKER RD, ALBANY, NY 12211 · (518) 458-1440 · Albany County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL354 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 65% 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.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
13.9:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
121 students
DISTRICT 41% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 17 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (65).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
66.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +22.0pp since 2023
Math
72.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 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 22 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.0% | 72.0% |
| 2023-24 | 44.0% | 65.0% |
% 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
61.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% 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 SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (61.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 354 | 34.2% | 61.7% |
| SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALBANY | 351 | 36.8% | 66.9% |
| VESTAL HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VESTAL | 388 | 34.3% | 56.6% |
| NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST SENECA | 437 | 38.4% | 41.3% |
| ERWIN VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PAINTED POST | 378 | 33.9% | 59.3% |
| HILLSIDE SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 383 | 25.3% | 65.6% |
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 SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Albany County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.7% | #683 of 2,335 | #18 of 46 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #637 of 2,342 ▲ 105 | #19 of 46 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #700 of 2,343 ▲ 420 | #21 of 46 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 354 | #1,643 of 2,585 | #27 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #1,860 of 2,338 | #34 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.2% | #795 of 2,388 | #26 of 46 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.2% | #1,867 of 2,534 | #29 of 47 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.1% | #1,713 of 1,757 | #30 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
354
+25 (+8%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 432
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 17.3:1
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 | 354 | 25.4 | 13.9:1 | 34% (121) |
| 2023-24 | 329 | 19.1 | 17.2:1 | 35% (116) |
| 2022-23 | 348 | 19.2 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 329 | 19 | 17.3:1 | 29% (96) |
| 2017-18 | 358 | 23 | 15.6:1 | 35% (125) |
| 2015-16 | 328 | 20 | 16.4:1 | 25% (83) |
| 2010-11 | 285 | 24 | 11.9:1 | 17% (48) |
| 2000-01 | 395 | 25 | 15.8:1 | 9% (34) |
| 1990-91 | 432 | 21 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the public schools in ALBANY, New York. It is a small elementary school. A federal count lists 354 students at the school, in pre-K through 4. Average enrollment for elementary schools in New York is about 443, so this school runs 20% smaller than that.
Besides SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, SOUTH COLONIE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 7 other schools. The district enrolls 5,040 students.
SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 62% White by enrollment. Other reported shares: 14% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 7% Black. The school's diversity index is 58%, meaning two students picked at random have a 58% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Federal data list 25.4 full-time-equivalent teachers at SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in 2024-25, for a ratio of 13.9:1. That is higher than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. The lunch program counts 34% of students at SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Albany County is 45%.
The allk12 Grade for SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is B+. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 65% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 61.7% actual against 62.4% predicted.
Albany County census figures show that the median household income is $85,333, roughly 46% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 75 public schools in Albany County, enrolling about 39,946 students in all.
The closest public school, SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL, is about 0.8 miles from SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 5th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The federal government classifies SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's location as Suburb: Large.
Enrollment at SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL climbed 8% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 329 to 354 students. Its ratio of students to teachers was 17.3:1 in 2020-21, and 13.9:1 in 2024-25.
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Albany County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
317,018
Census ACS
Median income
$85,333
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
75
39,946 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SOUTH COLONIE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- COLONIE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,640 students
- SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 873 students
- LISHA KILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 640 students
- VEEDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 503 students
- ROESSLEVILLE SCHOOLElementary · 368 students
- SADDLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 351 students
Other schools in ALBANY
- ALBANY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,937 students
- COLONIE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,640 students
- SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 873 students
- KIPP TECH VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 840 students
- KIPP ALBANY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 688 students
- LISHA KILL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 640 students
Nearby schools
- SAND CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 873
- SOUTHGATE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 369
- COLONIE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 1,640
- LOUDONVILLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 270
- ROESSLEVILLE SCHOOL1.5 mi · 368
- MONTESSORI MAGNET SCHOOL2.0 mi · 322
Frequently asked questions
About SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 354 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 13.9:1 students per teacher at SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 62% White, 10% Hispanic, 7% Black, 14% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
SHAKER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by SOUTH COLONIE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.