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Enrollment
486
Elementary
DISTRICT 465 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BATH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360405000164
VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL
216 MAPLE HTS, BATH, NY 14810 · (607) 776-4123 · Steuben County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL486 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 24% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
12.0:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
62%
299 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 | 71 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 93 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 112 | 23% |
| Grade 2 | 108 | 22% |
| Grade 3 | 98 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 2 | 0% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
Student demographics
14%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 10% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
31.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -5.0pp since 2023
Math
42.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.0% | 42.0% |
| 2023-24 | 36.0% | 45.0% |
% 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
38.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% 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 VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL
VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL's state test result (38.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL this school | 486 | 61.5% | 38.5% |
| WAYLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WAYLAND | 451 | 59.9% | 45.8% |
| HORNELL INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL HORNELL | 487 | 61.6% | 33.0% |
| ELM STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WAVERLY | 426 | 59.9% | 38.1% |
| HOLLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOLLEY | 513 | 60.4% | 44.9% |
| PENN YAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PENN YAN | 545 | 60.6% | 43.3% |
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 VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Steuben County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.5% | #1,694 of 2,335 | #11 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #1,762 of 2,342 ▼ 267 | #11 of 14 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #2,095 of 2,343 ▼ 599 | #13 of 14 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 486 | #894 of 2,585 | #3 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #1,277 of 2,338 | #9 of 14 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.1% | #2,217 of 2,388 | #9 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.5% | #1,127 of 2,534 | #3 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.3% | #1,122 of 1,757 | #7 of 13 |
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
486
+31 (+7%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 699
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 486 | 40.5 | 12.0:1 | 62% (299) |
| 2023-24 | 501 | 40.3 | 12.4:1 | 53% (265) |
| 2022-23 | 504 | 39.3 | 12.8:1 | 58% (293) |
| 2020-21 | 455 | 36 | 12.6:1 | 64% (290) |
| 2017-18 | 542 | 46 | 11.8:1 | 59% (320) |
| 2015-16 | 535 | 48 | 11.2:1 | 65% (346) |
| 2010-11 | 571 | 49 | 11.7:1 | 60% (340) |
| 2000-01 | 661 | 41 | 16.1:1 | 43% (281) |
| 1990-91 | 699 | 43 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL.
About VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL
VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school in BATH, New York, administered by BATH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The latest federal count shows 486 students in pre-K through 4.
VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL falls under BATH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 3 schools enrolling 1,395 students.
Most students at VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL are White: 93% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 3% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. County-wide, about 92% of residents are White. By the diversity index, VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL comes in at 14%.
Teacher staffing is 40.5 full-time equivalents, or about 12.0 students per teacher. Among elementary schools in New York, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. About 62% of students, or 299, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Steuben County is 51%.
allk12 grades VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL a C-. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL's average proficiency rate on state tests of 38.5% is 13.9 points below the 52.4% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Among Steuben County residents, median household income is about $65,887, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 26%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL is one of 34 public schools in Steuben County, which together enroll about 13,701 students.
HAVERLING SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, 2 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 38.5% is below the 56.5% average for nearby schools.
The NCES locale for VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL is Town: Distant, which covers schools in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL saw enrollment rise 7% between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Discussions about VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL may include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Steuben County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
92,588
Census ACS
Median income
$65,887
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
34
13,701 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BATH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- DANA L LYON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 509 students
- HAVERLING SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 400 students
Other schools in BATH
- DANA L LYON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 509 students
- HAVERLING SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 400 students
Nearby schools
- HAVERLING SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 400
- DANA L LYON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 509
- AVOCA CENTRAL SCHOOL6.7 mi · 369
- CAMPBELL-SAVONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL6.8 mi · 436
- GLENN H CURTISS MEMORIAL SCHOOL6.9 mi · 199
- HAMMONDSPORT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL6.9 mi · 193
Frequently asked questions
About VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOLHow large is VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL?
VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 486 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL serve?
VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-04.
How many teachers does VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL have?
VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.0:1.
What is the student diversity at VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL are roughly 93% White, 3% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL public or private?
VERNON E WIGHTMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by BATH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.