Enrollment
390
Elementary
DISTRICT 452 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CARTHAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360663000449
WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
21568 COLE RD, CARTHAGE, NY 13619 · (315) 493-2400 · Jefferson County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL390 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 8% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest 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
10.8:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
190 students
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 74 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 10% larger than its 4th grade class (67).
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
Based on grade levels within CARTHAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
35.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
34.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.0% | 34.0% |
| 2023-24 | 26.0% | 29.0% |
% 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
31.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-26.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 57% 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 WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (31.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 390 | 48.7% | 31.0% |
| CHARLES E RILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OSWEGO | 390 | 50.5% | 37.2% |
| WATERFORD-HALFMOON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WATERFORD | 388 | 51.8% | 43.3% |
| GENESEO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GENESEO | 406 | 44.3% | 39.7% |
| HERMAN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AUBURN | 399 | 51.4% | 38.8% |
| GEORGE SOUTHARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LOCKPORT | 363 | 50.4% | 49.0% |
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 WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Jefferson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #1,981 of 2,335 | #16 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #2,014 of 2,342 ▲ 27 | #17 of 20 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #1,991 of 2,343 ▼ 35 | #14 of 20 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 390 | #1,418 of 2,585 | #7 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #733 of 2,338 | #5 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.1% | #1,724 of 2,388 | #10 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.7% | #1,452 of 2,534 | #13 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.3% | #601 of 606 | N/A |
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
390
+72 (+23%) vs 2020
+19% since 1990-91, when it was 329
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 9.1:1
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 | 390 | 36.2 | 10.8:1 | 49% (190) |
| 2023-24 | 390 | 34 | 11.5:1 | 49% (192) |
| 2022-23 | 348 | 34.8 | 10.0:1 | 51% (178) |
| 2020-21 | 318 | 35 | 9.1:1 | 47% (149) |
| 2017-18 | 389 | 29 | 13.4:1 | 42% (164) |
| 2015-16 | 411 | 29 | 14.2:1 | 37% (153) |
| 2010-11 | 476 | 32 | 14.9:1 | 32% (151) |
| 2000-01 | 312 | 20 | 15.6:1 | 41% (129) |
| 1990-91 | 329 | 17 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
A medium-sized elementary school in CARTHAGE, New York, WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of CARTHAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Classes run from pre-K through 4, and the school has 390 students.
Besides WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, CARTHAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 other schools. The district enrolls 3,168 students.
Roughly 79% of students at WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are White. The rest of enrollment is 12% Hispanic and 7% multiracial. That is close to the 83% White share among all Jefferson County residents. WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's diversity index is 36%, against a US figure of 70%.
Its teaching staff equals 36.2 full-time positions, a ratio of 10.8:1. On average, elementary schools in New York have 12.8:1, compared with 10.8:1 here. Around 49% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That tracks the 49% average for public schools in Jefferson County.
WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded D by allk12, scoring above 8% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
After accounting for student poverty, WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests of 31.0% is 26.1 points below the 57.1% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
Census Bureau estimates for Jefferson County show that the median household income is $66,301, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 27%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 39 public schools in the county.
The nearest other public school, CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL, is about 0.6 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are 3 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 49.7%; WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's is 31.0%, ranking 8th of 9.
Its location is classified as Rural: Fringe by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Enrollment has grown by 72 students since 2020-21, to 390. Students per teacher rose from 9.1 in 2020-21 to 10.8 in 2024-25.
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Jefferson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
115,040
Census ACS
Median income
$66,301
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
39
16,789 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CARTHAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 925 students
- CARTHAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 887 students
- BLACK RIVER SCHOOLElementary · 572 students
- CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 394 students
Other schools in CARTHAGE
- CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 925 students
- CARTHAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 887 students
- CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 394 students
Nearby schools
- CARTHAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 925
- CARTHAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 887
- CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.8 mi · 394
- COPENHAGEN CENTRAL SCHOOL6.2 mi · 473
- BLACK RIVER SCHOOL7.5 mi · 572
- EVANS MILLS PRIMARY SCHOOL10.5 mi · 330
Frequently asked questions
About WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 390 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-04.
How many teachers does WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.8:1.
How diverse is WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 79% White, 12% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WEST CARTHAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by CARTHAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Jefferson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.