W A OLMSTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 W A OLMSTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Set in HARPURSVILLE, New York, W An OLMSTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a close-knit elementary-level community, run under HARPURSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 323 students across grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 27% leaner than the state mean of about 443.
Within HARPURSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 2 schools and 576 students, W An OLMSTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, W An OLMSTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). By comparison, Broome County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 59% of students at W An OLMSTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, W An OLMSTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.4%, the actual is 35.9%, a residual of -17.4 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Broome County indicate median household income runs about $62,616, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Broome County's 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,594 students), W An OLMSTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
HARPURSVILLE JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts W An OLMSTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 49.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a rural area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at W An OLMSTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has shrank 14%, going from 375 students in 2018 to 323 in 2025.
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