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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
890
Elementary
DISTRICT 625 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEWBURGH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362070002913
TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL
525 UNION AVE, NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553 · (845) 568-6450 · Orange County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL890 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 46% of New York public elementary schools
- C+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
10.4:1
85 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
557 students
DISTRICT 53% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 87 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 111 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 94 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 94 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 112 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 107 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 110 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 21% smaller than its 8th grade class (110).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL→NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMY
Based on grade levels within NEWBURGH CITY 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
45.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
37.3%
NY avg 57.4% . -62.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 63 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.0% | 37.3% |
| 2023-24 | 38.0% | 100.0% |
% 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
47.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% 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 TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL
TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL's state test result (47.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL this school | 890 | 62.6% | 47.1% |
| GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOL NEWBURGH | 788 | 58.9% | 26.9% |
| CALIFORNIA AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UNIONDALE | 730 | 63.6% | 34.5% |
| TRINITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW ROCHELLE | 838 | 71.0% | 37.6% |
| WASHINGTON ROSE SCHOOL ROOSEVELT | 667 | 60.7% | 36.9% |
| WEST HAVERSTRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST HAVERSTRAW | 715 | 54.0% | 26.3% |
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 TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.1% | #1,285 of 2,335 | #18 of 40 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.3% | #1,926 of 2,342 ▼ 1,881 | #35 of 40 ▼ 33 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #1,566 of 2,343 ▼ 160 | #28 of 40 ▼ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 890 | #84 of 2,585 | #4 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #603 of 2,338 | #7 of 43 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.4% | #1,086 of 2,388 | #29 of 43 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.6% | #1,111 of 2,534 | #5 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.7% | #1,176 of 1,757 | #19 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
890
-53 (-6%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 1,227
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 10.6:1
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 | 890 | 85.2 | 10.4:1 | 63% (557) |
| 2023-24 | 974 | 85.8 | 11.4:1 | 69% (669) |
| 2022-23 | 972 | 85.1 | 11.4:1 | 63% (611) |
| 2020-21 | 943 | 89 | 10.6:1 | 71% (668) |
| 2017-18 | 986 | 79 | 12.5:1 | 75% (744) |
| 2015-16 | 975 | 78 | 12.5:1 | 86% (843) |
| 2010-11 | 1,050 | 89 | 11.8:1 | 84% (883) |
| 2000-01 | 1,135 | 77 | 14.7:1 | 68% (767) |
| 1990-91 | 1,227 | 68 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL.
About TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL
TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL is a high-enrollment elementary school in NEWBURGH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, located in NEW WINDSOR, New York. It enrolls 890 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 8. That puts enrollment 101% larger than the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York.
Besides TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL, NEWBURGH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 11 other schools. The district enrolls 10,762 students.
About 64% of the student body at TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL is Hispanic. Other students are 20% Black, 9% White, and 4% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County residents are about 24% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 53, compared with 70 nationally.
Teacher count: 85.2 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 10.4:1. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is 12.8:1. Roughly 63% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The 44% average for public schools in Orange County is 19 points lower.
TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 46% of New York public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 47.1% actual against 52.0% predicted.
For Orange County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $97,178 a year, roughly 33% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL, Orange County has 82 public schools.
Measured in a straight line, HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 0.6 miles from TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL. The five-mile area around TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 48.1%, higher than TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL's 47.1%.
For locale, NCES codes TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL as Suburb: Large.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 6% decline, from 943 to 890.
The TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL discussion page is a place for open houses, carpools, and field trips. You can also rate the school on this page.
Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
406,616
Census ACS
Median income
$97,178
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
82
57,122 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEWBURGH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NEWBURGH FREE ACADEMYHigh · 3,550 students
- MEADOW HILL SCHOOLElementary · 982 students
- HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 802 students
- GIDNEY AVENUE MEMORIAL SCHOOLElementary · 788 students
- SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 782 students
- GARDNERTOWN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 612 students
Other schools in NEW WINDSOR
- CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,010 students
- HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 802 students
- VAILS GATE STEAM ACADEMYElementary · 500 students
- LITTLE BRITAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 442 students
- NEW WINDSOR SCHOOLElementary · 439 students
- KAPLAN CAREER ACADEMYHigh · 89 students
Nearby schools
- HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 802
- VAILS GATE STEAM ACADEMY1.3 mi · 500
- KAPLAN CAREER ACADEMY1.6 mi · 89
- NEW WINDSOR SCHOOL2.0 mi · 439
- SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL2.4 mi · 782
- LITTLE BRITAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.5 mi · 442
Frequently asked questions
About TEMPLE HILL SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL?
TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL enrolls approximately 890 students in grades KG-08.
Is TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many teachers does TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL have?
TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL employs 85 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.4:1.
How diverse is TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL?
TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL reports a student body of 9% White, 64% Hispanic, 20% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL public or private?
TEMPLE HILL SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEWBURGH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.