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SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE 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 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% 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 SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a mid-tier primary school in SHERBURNE, New York, one of the schools within SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 589 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 33% bigger than typical.
Across the 3 schools in SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,273 students total), SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%); the rest is composed of 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, On paper, SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.2%, the actual is 39.1%, a residual of -18.1 points.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Chenango County shows median household income runs about $62,948, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Chenango County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,036 students), SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 53.9%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Looking at the recent track record. SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 13% since 2018, when it stood at 680 (now 589).
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