Enrollment
404
Elementary
DISTRICT 314 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CORNING CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360840000640
WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
36 MCMAHON AVE, CORNING, NY 14830 · (607) 962-6844 · Steuben County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL404 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 48% of New York public elementary schools
- B-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
11.2:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
216 students
DISTRICT 49% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 55 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (66).
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 29% · 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
WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→CORNING-PAINTED POST MIDDLE SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within CORNING CITY 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
55.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
53.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.0% | 53.0% |
| 2023-24 | 44.0% | 51.0% |
% 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
49.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (49.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 404 | 53.5% | 49.5% |
| WATERFORD-HALFMOON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WATERFORD | 388 | 51.8% | 43.3% |
| GROTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GROTON | 388 | 53.9% | 53.8% |
| NORTH ROSE-WOLCOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH ROSE | 424 | 57.1% | 29.3% |
| EAST HILL SCHOOL CANAJOHARIE | 403 | 50.1% | 58.0% |
| CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAMBRIDGE | 435 | 51.3% | 42.3% |
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 WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Steuben County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.5% | #1,183 of 2,335 | #6 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #1,328 of 2,342 ▼ 70 | #8 of 14 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #1,140 of 2,343 ▼ 19 | #5 of 14 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 404 | #1,338 of 2,585 | #7 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #913 of 2,338 | #5 of 14 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 29.2% | #1,895 of 2,388 | #7 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.5% | #1,310 of 2,534 | #9 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.0% | #1,413 of 1,757 | #10 of 13 |
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
404
+44 (+12%) vs 2020
-22% since 1990-91, when it was 515
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 404 | 36.2 | 11.2:1 | 53% (216) |
| 2023-24 | 392 | 36.1 | 10.9:1 | 49% (192) |
| 2022-23 | 373 | 32 | 11.7:1 | 55% (206) |
| 2020-21 | 360 | 32 | 11.3:1 | 52% (188) |
| 2017-18 | 430 | 38 | 11.3:1 | 57% (244) |
| 2015-16 | 423 | 35 | 12.1:1 | 56% (238) |
| 2010-11 | 437 | 38 | 11.5:1 | 51% (222) |
| 2000-01 | 477 | 31 | 15.4:1 | 40% (191) |
| 1990-91 | 515 | 29 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The public elementary school WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in CORNING, New York. Federal data show 404 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is run by CORNING CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, whose 9 schools enroll 4,354 students.
White students account for 84% of the school's enrollment. After that, the student body is 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 3% Black. Among all residents of Steuben County, the White share is about 92%. A diversity index of 29% means there is a 29% chance two randomly chosen students at WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a ratio of 11.2 students per teacher, from 36.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is 12.8:1. Lunch program data show 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Public schools in Steuben County average a similar 51%.
On the allk12 Grade, WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at B-, ahead of 48% of New York public elementary schools.
A school with WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 55.3%. WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 49.5%, 5.8 points below that line.
The school is in Steuben County, where median household income comes to about $65,887, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Steuben County's 34 public schools enroll about 13,701 students and include WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Of the public schools around it, WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is closest to CORNING-PAINTED POST HIGH SCHOOL, about 1.0 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 7th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Town: Fringe.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 404, up from 360 in 2020-21.
This page is set up for the WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Steuben County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
92,588
Census ACS
Median income
$65,887
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
34
13,701 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CORNING CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CORNING-PAINTED POST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,524 students
- CORNING-PAINTED POST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 925 students
- FREDERICK CARDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 399 students
- ERWIN VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 378 students
- CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 262 students
- WINFIELD STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 224 students
Other schools in CORNING
- CORNING-PAINTED POST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,524 students
- FREDERICK CARDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 399 students
- WINFIELD STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 224 students
- HUGH W GREGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 214 students
- CORNING PAINTED POST HIGH SCHOOL LEARNING CENTERHigh · 24 students
Nearby schools
- CORNING-PAINTED POST HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,524
- FREDERICK CARDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 399
- HUGH W GREGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 214
- CORNING PAINTED POST HIGH SCHOOL LEARNING CENTER2.0 mi · 24
- WINFIELD STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 224
- CALVIN U SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.9 mi · 262
Frequently asked questions
About WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 404 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.2:1 students per teacher at WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 84% White, 6% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of CORNING CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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