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Enrollment
746
Elementary
DISTRICT 1,012 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIDDLETOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361932001763
WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL
345 SCHUTT RD EXT, MIDDLETOWN, NY 10940 · (845) 326-1711 · Orange County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL746 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 28% 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.
- C+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
11.6:1
65 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
566 students
DISTRICT 76% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 135 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 122 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 126 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 111 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 134 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 118 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (135) is 14% larger than its 5th grade class (118).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
51.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +22.0pp since 2023
Math
43.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 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 22 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.0% | 43.0% |
| 2023-24 | 29.0% | 40.0% |
% 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
37.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL
WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL's state test result (37.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL this school | 746 | 75.9% | 37.5% |
| GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL LONG ISLAND CITY | 692 | 74.9% | 46.1% |
| GRAND CONCOURSE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 698 | 76.9% | 65.5% |
| TRINITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW ROCHELLE | 838 | 71.0% | 37.6% |
| PS 171 PATRICK HENRY NEW YORK | 738 | 78.9% | 85.5% |
| PARK AVENUE SCHOOL AMITYVILLE | 604 | 74.2% | 33.8% |
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 WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.5% | #1,735 of 2,335 | #33 of 40 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #1,739 of 2,342 ▼ 49 | #30 of 40 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #1,306 of 2,343 ▲ 501 | #20 of 40 ▲ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 746 | #212 of 2,585 | #7 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #1,092 of 2,338 | #19 of 43 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.1% | #747 of 2,388 | #15 of 43 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.9% | #872 of 2,534 | #3 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.9% | #1,216 of 1,757 | #20 of 31 |
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
746
-70 (-9%) vs 2020
+26% since 1990-91, when it was 591
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 746 | 64.6 | 11.6:1 | 76% (566) |
| 2023-24 | 739 | 62.5 | 11.8:1 | 73% (540) |
| 2022-23 | 777 | 65.1 | 11.9:1 | 76% (590) |
| 2020-21 | 816 | 66 | 12.4:1 | 79% (643) |
| 2017-18 | 819 | 67 | 12.2:1 | 79% (649) |
| 2015-16 | 831 | 60 | 13.8:1 | 78% (645) |
| 2010-11 | 990 | 64 | 15.5:1 | 72% (712) |
| 2000-01 | 694 | 43 | 16.1:1 | 55% (382) |
| 1990-91 | 591 | 40 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL.
About WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL
WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL is an elementary school in MIDDLETOWN, New York, and it is part of MIDDLETOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It reports enrollment of 746 students in kindergarten through 5. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 68% larger than that mark.
MIDDLETOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT oversees WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL and 5 other schools, with 7,176 students in total.
Federal enrollment data show WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL is 59% Hispanic. The next largest groups are 23% Black, 9% White, 5% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The school's Hispanic share is 35 points above the 24% share among Orange County residents. A diversity index of 59% means there is a 59% chance two randomly chosen students at WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL are from different groups.
The school lists 64.6 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.6:1. The average for elementary schools in New York, 12.8:1, is higher. WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 76%. Among public schools in Orange County, the average eligibility rate is 44%.
On the allk12 Grade, WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL lands at C, ahead of 28% of New York public elementary schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL is 9.6 points below its prediction. Actual: 37.5%. Predicted: 47.1%.
American Community Survey estimates for Orange County show that the median household earns about $97,178 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 33%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Orange County has 82 public schools with about 57,122 students, including WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL.
A public school about 0.5 miles away, MIDDLETOWN HIGH SCHOOL, is the closest to WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL ranks 5th on average proficiency.
NCES assigns WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL the locale Suburb: Small, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 746, compared with 816 in 2020-21.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
406,616
Census ACS
Median income
$97,178
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
82
57,122 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MIDDLETOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MIDDLETOWN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,495 students
- PRESIDENTIAL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,225 students
- MAPLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,064 students
- MONHAGEN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 826 students
- MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 820 students
Other schools in MIDDLETOWN
- MIDDLETOWN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,495 students
- PRESIDENTIAL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,225 students
- MINISINK VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,116 students
- MAPLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,064 students
- MONHAGEN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 826 students
- MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 820 students
Nearby schools
- MIDDLETOWN HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 2,495
- MIDDLETOWN TWIN TOWERS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 820
- PRESIDENTIAL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 1,225
- MONHAGEN MIDDLE SCHOOL3.0 mi · 826
- MAPLE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.1 mi · 1,064
- SCOTCHTOWN AVENUE SCHOOL4.1 mi · 505
Frequently asked questions
About WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOLHow many students attend WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL?
WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL enrolls approximately 746 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL serve?
WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.6:1 students per teacher at WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL.
How diverse is WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL?
WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL reports a student body of 9% White, 59% Hispanic, 23% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL?
WILLIAM A CARTER SCHOOL is overseen by MIDDLETOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Orange County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.