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How has TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
503
Elementary
DISTRICT 487 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TACONIC HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362862003468
TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
73 COUNTY RTE 11A, CRARYVILLE, NY 12521 · (518) 325-2821 · Columbia County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL503 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 49% 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.
- 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
11.5:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
308 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 42 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 58 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 64 | 13% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 9% smaller than its 6th grade class (64).
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 38% · 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
TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→TACONIC HILLSJUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within TACONIC HILLS 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
49.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
50.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.0% | 50.0% |
| 2023-24 | 42.0% | 54.0% |
% 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
48.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (48.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 503 | 61.2% | 48.7% |
| GRANBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FULTON | 463 | 61.3% | 25.6% |
| HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOLLEY | 513 | 60.4% | 44.9% |
| HORNELL INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL HORNELL | 487 | 61.6% | 33.0% |
| PENN YAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PENN YAN | 545 | 60.6% | 43.3% |
| CAIRO-DURHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAIRO | 432 | 62.3% | 54.8% |
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 TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Columbia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.7% | #1,208 of 2,335 | #3 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,461 of 2,342 ▼ 300 | #3 of 6 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #1,394 of 2,343 ▼ 184 | #5 of 6 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 503 | #810 of 2,585 | #2 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #1,075 of 2,338 | #6 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.3% | #1,718 of 2,388 | #3 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.2% | #1,138 of 2,534 | #2 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.8% | #316 of 1,757 | N/A |
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
503
-100 (-17%) vs 2020
-21% since 2000-01, when it was 634
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 11.0:1
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 | 503 | 43.7 | 11.5:1 | 61% (308) |
| 2023-24 | 538 | 48 | 11.2:1 | 57% (305) |
| 2022-23 | 562 | 58.5 | 9.6:1 | 57% (319) |
| 2020-21 | 603 | 55 | 11.0:1 | 33% (197) |
| 2017-18 | 706 | 57 | 12.4:1 | 66% (463) |
| 2015-16 | 738 | 60 | 12.3:1 | 59% (436) |
| 2010-11 | 728 | 62 | 11.7:1 | 48% (352) |
| 2000-01 | 634 | 41 | 15.5:1 | 37% (235) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school with its address in CRARYVILLE, New York. The grade span is pre-K through 6, and enrollment is 503 students.
In TACONIC HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, 2 schools enroll a combined 974 students.
Roughly 79% of students at TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are White. The rest of enrollment is 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 2% Black. TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's diversity index is 36%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teacher staffing is 43.7 full-time equivalents, or about 11.5 students per teacher. On average, elementary schools in New York have 12.8:1, compared with 11.5:1 here. About 61% of students, or 308, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Columbia County is 48%.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives a B-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 48.7% actual against 52.5% predicted.
Federal survey data for Columbia County show that the median household income is $81,528, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Columbia County is home to 17 public schools and about 6,006 public school students.
Nearest public school: TACONIC HILLSJUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. Within ten miles are 3 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 39.8%; TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's is 48.7%, ranking 2nd of 5.
NCES assigns TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale Rural: Distant, meaning in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
The school enrolled 503 students in 2024-25, 100 fewer than the 603 it had in 2020-21.
The TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Columbia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
61,100
Census ACS
Median income
$81,528
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
17
6,006 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in TACONIC HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- TACONIC HILLSJUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 471 students
Other schools in CRARYVILLE
- TACONIC HILLSJUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 471 students
Nearby schools
- TACONIC HILLSJUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 471
- BROOKWOOD SECURE CENTER FOR YOUTH8.4 mi · 61
- South Egremont9.5 mi · 11
- HUDSON HIGH SCHOOL10.8 mi · 493
- HUDSON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL10.8 mi · 340
- MONTGOMERY C SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL10.9 mi · 689
Frequently asked questions
About TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 503 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 11.5:1 (44 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 79% White, 13% Hispanic, 2% Black, 0% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
TACONIC HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by TACONIC HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Columbia County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.