Enrollment
348
Elementary
DISTRICT 319 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTHERN CAYUGA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362757004789
SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2384 RT 34B, AURORA, NY 13026 · (315) 364-7098 · Cayuga County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL348 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 54% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
12.9:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
139 students
DISTRICT 40% · 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 | 33 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 41 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 37 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 38 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 51 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 20% smaller than its 6th grade class (51).
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 32% · 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
SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→SOUTHERN CAYUGA 7-12 SECONDARY SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within SOUTHERN CAYUGA 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
55.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
63.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.0% | 63.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.0% | 61.0% |
% 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
54.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (54.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 348 | 39.9% | 54.9% |
| MARION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MARION | 335 | 43.0% | 59.2% |
| WILLIAMSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WILLIAMSON | 396 | 42.4% | 40.8% |
| GEYSER ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SARATOGA SPRINGS | 337 | 37.1% | 56.9% |
| ALEXANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALEXANDER | 326 | 39.9% | 45.8% |
| AVON PRIMARY SCHOOL AVON | 316 | 37.7% | 55.2% |
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 SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Cayuga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.9% | #969 of 2,335 | #2 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #986 of 2,342 ▼ 73 | #1 of 11 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #1,153 of 2,343 ▼ 139 | #2 of 11 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 348 | #1,682 of 2,585 | #9 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #1,596 of 2,338 | #9 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 28.5% | #1,914 of 2,388 | #6 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.9% | #1,696 of 2,534 | #10 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.5% | #1,633 of 1,757 | #7 of 9 |
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
348
-8 (-2%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 361
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 11.9:1
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 | 348 | 27 | 12.9:1 | 40% (139) |
| 2023-24 | 360 | 27 | 13.3:1 | 51% (185) |
| 2022-23 | 361 | 28.5 | 12.7:1 | 52% (187) |
| 2020-21 | 356 | 30 | 11.9:1 | 46% (164) |
| 2017-18 | 357 | 33 | 10.8:1 | 45% (162) |
| 2015-16 | 351 | 33 | 10.6:1 | 46% (161) |
| 2010-11 | 225 | 17 | 13.2:1 | 38% (85) |
| 2000-01 | 490 | 34 | 14.4:1 | 24% (118) |
| 1990-91 | 361 | 12 | 30.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a small elementary school in AURORA, New York. It covers pre-K through 6, with a total enrollment of 348 students. Enrollment is 21% lower than the average for elementary schools in New York, which is about 443.
SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is run by SOUTHERN CAYUGA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, whose 2 schools enroll 637 students.
SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls a student body that is 83% White. The school is also 16% Hispanic. By the diversity index, SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in at 29%.
SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL counts 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 12.9 students for each one. Elementary schools in New York have a similar average ratio of 12.8:1. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Cayuga County, the average is 50%.
The allk12 Grade for SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is B-. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 54% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 54.9%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 60.3%.
Cayuga County has these Census figures: median household income is about $67,904, about 25% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the 22 public schools in Cayuga County.
The shortest distance from SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to another public school is less than a tenth of a mile, to SOUTHERN CAYUGA 7-12 SECONDARY SCHOOL. A ten-mile radius around the school includes 5 other public schools. SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 6th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Rural: Distant.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 356 in 2020-21 and 348 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 12.9:1, from 11.9:1.
The SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community page is open for posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Cayuga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
75,102
Census ACS
Median income
$67,904
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
22
8,576 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SOUTHERN CAYUGA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SOUTHERN CAYUGA 7-12 SECONDARY SCHOOLHigh · 289 students
Nearby schools
- SOUTHERN CAYUGA 7-12 SECONDARY SCHOOL0.0 mi · 289
- ANDREW J SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL8.4 mi · 332
- UNION SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL8.9 mi · 212
- UNION SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL8.9 mi · 165
- SOUTH SENECA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL9.6 mi · 286
- MORAVIA JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL10.1 mi · 442
Frequently asked questions
About SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 348 students in grades PK-06.
Is SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 12.9:1 (27 FTE teachers).
How diverse is SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 83% White, 16% Hispanic, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SOUTHERN CAYUGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by SOUTHERN CAYUGA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Cayuga County.
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