Enrollment
286
Elementary
DISTRICT 308 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH SENECA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362214003133
SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
8326 MAIN ST, INTERLAKEN, NY 14847 · (607) 869-9636 · Seneca County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL286 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 2% of New York public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
8.4:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
130 students
DISTRICT 46% · 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 | 29 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 44 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 37 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 19% larger than its 5th grade class (37).
Student demographics
22%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 18% · 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
SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→SOUTH SENECA MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within SOUTH SENECA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
27.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
26.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.0% | 26.0% |
| 2023-24 | 13.0% | 18.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
21.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-36.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 58% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (21.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 286 | 45.5% | 21.5% |
| OXFORD ACADEMY PRIMARY SCHOOL OXFORD | 275 | 46.2% | 33.7% |
| FLOYD BELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIRKWOOD | 280 | 44.6% | 64.1% |
| VOLNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FULTON | 306 | 46.4% | 28.9% |
| YORK CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RETSOF | 275 | 48.4% | 34.3% |
| BLOOMFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BLOOMFIELD | 316 | 44.6% | 48.8% |
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 SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.5% | #2,216 of 2,335 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.0% | #2,174 of 2,342 ▲ 71 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #2,177 of 2,343 ▲ 111 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 286 | #2,069 of 2,585 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.4:1 | #104 of 2,338 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 21.7% | #2,067 of 2,388 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.5% | #1,535 of 2,534 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.6% | #1,112 of 1,757 |
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
286
-32 (-10%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 359
Student : Teacher
8.4:1
was 9.3:1
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 | 286 | 33.8 | 8.4:1 | 45% (130) |
| 2023-24 | 295 | 32.9 | 9.0:1 | 49% (145) |
| 2022-23 | 315 | 32 | 9.8:1 | 52% (164) |
| 2020-21 | 318 | 34 | 9.3:1 | 58% (184) |
| 2017-18 | 320 | 33 | 9.7:1 | 51% (163) |
| 2015-16 | 292 | 28 | 10.4:1 | 58% (170) |
| 2010-11 | 352 | 40 | 8.8:1 | 64% (224) |
| 2000-01 | 611 | 51 | 12.0:1 | 48% (296) |
| 1990-91 | 359 | 30 | 12.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
In INTERLAKEN, New York, part of Seneca County, SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school. It enrolled 286 students in pre-K through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average about 443 students each.
SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 2 schools in SOUTH SENECA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which enrolls 615 students in total.
White students are the large majority at SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 88% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 8% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. The county population is about 88% White, within a few points of the school. The chance that two students picked at random at SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 22%.
A ratio of 8.4:1 comes from the school's 33.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. For comparison, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 45% in 2024-25.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives an F. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
BeatsExpectations places SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in the bottom 10% of New York schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 36.7 points below it (21.5% actual, 58.3% predicted).
Seneca County has these Census figures: median household income is about $68,089, roughly 25% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. The public schools of Seneca County number 11 and enroll about 3,612.
Nearby, SOUTH SENECA MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL is about 5.9 miles away. Other public schools within ten miles number 6. Compared with its nearest neighbors, SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 9th of 9 on average proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Distant.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL went from 318 students to 286.
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Seneca County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
32,920
Census ACS
Median income
$68,089
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
11
3,612 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SOUTH SENECA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SOUTH SENECA MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 329 students
Nearby schools
- SOUTH SENECA MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL5.9 mi · 329
- RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL6.8 mi · 277
- TRUMANSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL6.9 mi · 409
- CHARLES O DICKERSON HIGH SCHOOL7.0 mi · 271
- SOUTHERN CAYUGA 7-12 SECONDARY SCHOOL9.6 mi · 289
- SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL9.6 mi · 348
Frequently asked questions
About SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 286 students in grades PK-05.
Is SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 8.4:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 88% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by SOUTH SENECA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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