VALLEYVIEW 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 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the intimate K-5 schools in ONEONTA, New York, run under ONEONTA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 263 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 41% leaner than that benchmark.
ONEONTA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,679 students. VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 79% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 89% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 62.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.0%.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Otsego County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,885, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 21 public schools in Otsego County (combined enrollment of about 6,216 students).
Nearest neighbor: ONEONTA MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.1%.
The school occupies a town-center site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has shrank 6%, going from 279 students in 2018 to 263 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.
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