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TRI-VALLEY 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 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% 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 TRI-VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Located at 34 MOORE HILL RD, in GRAHAMSVILLE, New York, TRI-VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized primary school that caters to 471 students (grades pre-K through 6), operated by TRI-VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Across the 2 schools in TRI-VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (879 students total), TRI-VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, TRI-VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 73%. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. Compared to Sullivan County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Sullivan County's rate of about 61%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), TRI-VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.6%, the actual is 44.3%, a residual of -12.3 points.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Sullivan County indicate median household income runs about $72,382, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Sullivan County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,164 students), TRI-VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is TRI-VALLEY SECONDARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TRI-VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 36.8%.
TRI-VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a countryside location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TRI-VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 11%, going from 528 students in 2018 to 471 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 79% to 73% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.
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