Enrollment
230
Elementary
DISTRICT 208 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WESTMORELAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363105001417
WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
5176 RT 233, WESTMORELAND, NY 13490 · (315) 557-2618 · Oneida County
GRADES 03–06ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL230 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of New York public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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
11.1:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
59 students
DISTRICT 23% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 57 | 25% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 23% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 29% |
| Grade 6 | 53 | 23% |
Student demographics
8%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 7% · 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
WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→DONALD H CRANE JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
76.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +15.0pp since 2023
Math
73.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.0% | 73.0% |
| 2023-24 | 61.0% | 73.0% |
% 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
70.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (70.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 230 | 25.7% | 70.6% |
| GUARDINO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLAYTON | 243 | 23.9% | 44.2% |
| POLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL POLAND | 256 | 26.2% | 62.2% |
| REMSEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL REMSEN | 217 | 28.1% | 41.5% |
| KENSINGTON ROAD SCHOOL GLENS FALLS | 263 | 27.0% | 75.3% |
| HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HAMILTON | 256 | 21.9% | 58.3% |
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 WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Oneida County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.6% | #388 of 2,335 | #3 of 37 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #607 of 2,342 ▼ 111 | #6 of 37 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #363 of 2,343 ▲ 137 | #1 of 37 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 230 | #2,289 of 2,585 | #37 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #867 of 2,338 | #11 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 7.6% | #2,343 of 2,388 | #36 of 39 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.7% | #2,079 of 2,534 | #32 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.8% | #444 of 1,757 | #5 of 25 |
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
230
-22 (-9%) vs 2020
-33% since 2000-01, when it was 341
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 230 | 20.8 | 11.1:1 | 26% (59) |
| 2023-24 | 229 | 20.9 | 10.9:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 237 | 22 | 10.8:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 252 | 18 | 14.0:1 | 31% (78) |
| 2017-18 | 306 | 19.5 | 15.7:1 | 29% (88) |
| 2015-16 | 307 | 20 | 15.3:1 | 31% (95) |
| 2010-11 | 287 | 20 | 14.3:1 | 33% (95) |
| 2000-01 | 341 | 17 | 20.1:1 | 32% (110) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
This page covers WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a small elementary school in WESTMORELAND, New York. The school's enrollment of 230 students covers grades 3 through 6. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average about 443 students each.
The district, WESTMORELAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, operates 3 schools serving 775 students.
Most students at WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are White: 96% of enrollment. For comparison, the population of Oneida County is roughly 80% White. The chance that two students picked at random at WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 8%.
WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates with 20.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 11.1:1. For comparison, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. About 26% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. That rate is below the 47% average among public schools in Oneida County.
WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 78% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 65.6% for WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The school posts 70.6%, 5.0 points above the prediction.
Within Oneida County, median household income is about $70,154, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Oneida County number 72 and enroll about 32,265.
The closest public school, DEFOREST A HILL PRIMARY SCHOOL, is less than a tenth of a mile from WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 3rd of 7 nearby schools with test data.
WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in rural territory close to an urban area, a location NCES labels Rural: Fringe.
WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL saw enrollment fall 9% between 2020-21 and 2024-25. The number of students per teacher fell from 14.0 to 11.1 over 4 years.
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Oneida County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
229,124
Census ACS
Median income
$70,154
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
72
32,265 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WESTMORELAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- DONALD H CRANE JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 360 students
- DEFOREST A HILL PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 185 students
Other schools in WESTMORELAND
- DONALD H CRANE JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 360 students
- DEFOREST A HILL PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 185 students
Nearby schools
- DEFOREST A HILL PRIMARY SCHOOL0.0 mi · 185
- DONALD H CRANE JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 360
- ONEIDA-HERKIMER-MADISON BOCES4.2 mi · 690
- HARTS HILL SCHOOL4.3 mi · 321
- WESTMORELAND ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.3 mi · 335
- CLINTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.4 mi · 563
Frequently asked questions
About WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 230 students in grades 03-06.
Is WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades 03-06.
How many teachers does WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.1:1.
What is the student diversity at WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 96% White, 2% Hispanic, 0% Black, 2% Two or more.
Is WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
WESTMORELAND UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by WESTMORELAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.