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Enrollment
460
Elementary
DISTRICT 440 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WATKINS GLEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363024004063
WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
612 S DECATUR ST, WATKINS GLEN, NY 14891 · (607) 535-3250 · Schuyler County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL460 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% 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.
- DBeats 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
10.9:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
198 students
DISTRICT 43% · 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 | 36 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 59 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 57 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 12% larger than its 6th grade class (57).
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 13% · 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
WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→WATKINS GLEN CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within WATKINS GLEN CENTRAL 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
38.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
37.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 38 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.0% | 37.0% |
| 2023-24 | 33.0% | 33.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
36.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-23.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 59% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (36.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 460 | 43.0% | 36.0% |
| CATO-MERIDIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CATO | 463 | 42.5% | 43.7% |
| PALMYRA-MACEDON PRIMARY SCHOOL PALMYRA | 431 | 42.2% | N/A |
| GREENWICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GREENWICH | 452 | 40.7% | 50.8% |
| ALLEGANY-LIMESTONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALLEGANY | 466 | 42.3% | 61.6% |
| BOONVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BOONVILLE | 420 | 42.6% | 52.7% |
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 WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #1,792 of 2,335 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #1,950 of 2,342 ▼ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #1,904 of 2,343 ▼ 256 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 460 | #1,030 of 2,585 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #772 of 2,338 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 11.2% | #2,279 of 2,388 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.0% | #1,606 of 2,534 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.4% | #693 of 1,757 |
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
460
-9 (-2%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 614
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 10.7:1
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 | 460 | 42.4 | 10.9:1 | 43% (198) |
| 2023-24 | 477 | 41.5 | 11.5:1 | 40% (191) |
| 2022-23 | 468 | 43.6 | 10.7:1 | 42% (197) |
| 2020-21 | 469 | 44 | 10.7:1 | 49% (231) |
| 2017-18 | 564 | 42 | 13.4:1 | 52% (295) |
| 2015-16 | 573 | 46 | 12.5:1 | 50% (289) |
| 2010-11 | 459 | 41 | 11.2:1 | 24% (112) |
| 2000-01 | 539 | 45 | 12.0:1 | 30% (160) |
| 1990-91 | 614 | 44 | 13.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in WATKINS GLEN, New York, and it is part of WATKINS GLEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school runs pre-K through 6 and enrolls 460 students.
WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits within WATKINS GLEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 2 schools and 879 students.
White students are 94% of those enrolled at WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The rest of enrollment is 3% multiracial. That is in line with Schuyler County, where about 93% of residents are White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 11, compared with 70 nationally.
Based on 42.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a ratio of 10.9:1. The average for elementary schools in New York, 12.8:1, is higher. Income data for the school show 43% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 45% average for public schools in Schuyler County.
WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 14% of New York public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York schools: 36.0% actual against 59.2% predicted.
In Schuyler County, the median household earns about $67,663 a year, about 26% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Schuyler County has 6 public schools with about 1,801 students, including WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is WATKINS GLEN CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.1 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes 4 other public schools. Local comparison: WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th of 8 nearby schools, at 36.0% versus a 47.8% average.
The school's federal locale classification is Rural: Distant.
Enrollment at WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL was 469 in 2020-21 and 460 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%.
On allk12, people connected to WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Schuyler County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
17,562
Census ACS
Median income
$67,663
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
6
1,801 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WATKINS GLEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WATKINS GLEN CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 419 students
Other schools in WATKINS GLEN
- WATKINS GLEN CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 419 students
Nearby schools
- WATKINS GLEN CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 419
- B C CATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.7 mi · 183
- ODESSA-MONTOUR JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL4.5 mi · 284
- HOWARD A HANLON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.5 mi · 206
- BRADFORD CENTRAL SCHOOL11.7 mi · 249
- DUNDEE JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL12.0 mi · 281
Frequently asked questions
About WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 460 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.9:1 students per teacher at WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 94% White, 2% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WATKINS GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by WATKINS GLEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Schuyler County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.